Every morning I search Google News for “transgender” and increasingly all I find on there are attacks on us. It is hard to tell if it is Google selecting the news for me or there is a rise in news articles about assaults against us.
Some of today’s articles…
Some of today’s articles…
Threat in Newberry investigated as transgender hate crime
Ocala Star Banner
By Daniel Smithson
Posted September 7, 2018
Alachua County Sheriff’s deputies are looking for a person suspected of spray painting a derogatory slur used against transgender people on a home garage.
Sheriff’s Sgt. Brett Rhodenizer said while patrolling the Newberry Oaks neighborhood in Newberry early Friday morning, deputies came across the vandalized home.
The slur was spray-painted in large, black letters and threatened the homeowners to “move or die.”
Rhodenizer said the vandalism occurred between 9 p.m. Thursday and 3 a.m. Friday morning when deputies alerted the homeowners, Alecia and Liz Abel.
Based on the words used in the threat, Rhodenizer said the case is being investigated as a hate crime.
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“Whatever their motivations were, the actions are criminal,” he said. “We’re looking forward to working with neighbors to get the person identified.”
Why 2018 could be the ‘deadliest’ year yet for transgender women of color
Philly.com
By Anna Orso,
September 6, 2018
Milan Sherry knows what it feels like to recite her final prayers while staring down the barrel of a gun.
But as a black transgender woman and a former sex worker, she faces discrimination based on her gender identity on a daily basis.
It's why she identifies closely with Shantee Tucker, a transgender woman who was fatally shot in Hunting Park early Wednesday morning.
Sherry's now an advocate who works with the North Philadelphia-based Trans Equity Project and hopes the program that's organizing an October march to remember victims of violence can make a difference in the lives of transgender women who face disproportionately high rates of violence and discrimination. But she's not naive.
"Our sisters' lives are worth more when they become hashtags than when they are alive," she said. "Unfortunately, Shantee is not going to be the last girl who is murdered."
Tucker, 30, is one of three black transgender women killed this week in the United States and one of at least five transgender women of color killed in Philadelphia since 2013. There has been a documented uptick in homicides reported against transgender women over the last five years, and 2018 could be the "deadliest" on record for the group, according to Mara Keisling, executive director of the National Center for Transgender Equality, which has counted 21 such homicides this year.
Man gets $75,000 bail in assault of transgender woman in downtown Charleston
Post and Courier
By Angie Jackson
September 5, 2018
As a transgender woman of color, a 34-year-old Goose Creek resident who was knocked unconscious during a confrontation last month in downtown Charleston says she’s no stranger to persecution from biased individuals.
The victim’s statement, read aloud by an advocate, came Wednesday during a bond hearing for the man who authorities said punched her in the head outside a nightclub after making derogatory comments about her gender identity.
Christopher Lamar Price, 30, received $75,000 bail on a charge of second-degree assault and battery, a misdemeanor that carries a punishment of up to three years behind bars.
Transgender Killings Spur Calls For Police Reform
NPR
September 1, 2018
Four transgender women have been shot this year in Jacksonville, Fla., three of them fatally. The shootings have spurred community outrage over police handling of the cases and a call for a better relationship between the sheriff's department and the local LGBT community.
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Each of the shootings in Jacksonville were followed by vigils and protests by activist groups, including Equality Florida, a civil rights organization supporting the LGBTQ community. In front of City Hall earlier this summer, Equality Florida's Director of Transgender Equality, Gina Duncan, said the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office, or JSO, is impeding its own investigations by not using the victim's preferred names and pronouns, the way their friends knew them.
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During that meeting, Williams announced he'd started assembling a LGBT liaison team. "It shouldn't take a crisis like this, but because of this crisis I think that the team is an absolute necessity," he said from the stage.
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In the last couple months his office has begun referring to the victims as transgender and by several names — their legal ones and names they actually used, which is new.
"There's an investigative benefit to identifying someone by the way they were identified in the community," Williams said.
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