Trans Slur & The Count Continues To Climb

With the persecution of us by the rightwing and the Republicans the death toll mounts and now the disparaging is now in the media.

Amazon’s “Jack Ryan” Comes Under Fire for Including Transphobic Slur
The series debuted shortly after news broke of two black transgender women who lost their lives to anti-trans violence.
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By Samantha Manzella
September 4, 2018

Amazon’s Tom Clancy’s Jack Ryan just premiered on August 31, but it’s already the subject of controversy: LGBTQ activists are slamming the new series for including transphobic language in its dialogue in the middle of an epidemic of violence against the trans community.

In the third episode of Season 1, a character asks her coworker how he got a black eye. When he refuses to explain, she jokes, “Did you accidentally pick up another tranny on Fremont Street?”
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Other Twitter users joined the conversation, asking how Jack Ryan writers thought including insensitive and invalidating dialogue during a growing epidemic of violence against trans people was “a fine idea.”

As the “degrading language” continues the violence against us continues with two more murders on the same day.

The Crisis Grows: Two Transgender Women Murdered On the Same Day in Chicago, Louisiana
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By  Kate Sosin
August 31, 2018

Dejanay Stanton was 24. Vontashia Bell was 18. On Thursday night, news of their deaths spread across social media, interrupting a month-long stretch without a reported transgender homicide.

Both transgender women were murdered August 30 in Chicago and Louisiana respectively.

“Was hoping we could get through the month of August without losing a single trans person, but unfortunately that is not going to be the case.” wrote transgender blogger Monica Roberts.
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A national crisis
The murders of Stanton and Bell mark the 17th and 18th reported transgender homicides this year, putting 2018 on track to be the most violent against transgender people on record. Last year saw the highest number of transgender homicides ever reported at 28.

Louisiana, in particular, has seen an alarming number of transgender murders, according to data compiled by the national LGBTQ media organization GLAAD. Bell’s death marks the 9th transgender trans murder there in just three years. Stanton’s death brings the number for Illinois up for four since 2015.

In many of those cases, the victims have been initially misgendered by police and news outlets, delaying accurate reporting of their deaths.

We need to stop the hate and the hate is coming from the top down.