This has not been a good year for us, the death toll of trans people is increasing at an alarming rate.
Data from the FBI and UCLA’s Williams Institute shows that LGBTQ Americans are more than twice as likely to be killed in the United StatesNBC NewsBy Chase Cain,July 29, 2020Transgender people have more visibility in America than ever before, but that visibility has come at a deadly cost in 2020.Through the month of July, at least 22 transgender or gender non-conforming people have been killed in the United States. That puts 2020 on track to be the most deadly year for the trans community since the Human Rights Campaign began tracking violence against them.The uptick in murders has taken the lives of young, mostly Black transgender people from Philadelphia and Chicago to Miami and Dallas. It also comes as the “Black Trans Lives Matter” movement has gained momentum. Massive rallies in New York, Los Angeles, and Washington, D.C. drew diverse crowds, hoping to bring attention to the epidemic of violence against the trans community.Data from the FBI and UCLA’s Williams Institute shows that LGBTQ Americans are more than twice as likely to be killed in the United States, but when you look specifically at Black trans women, their risk of being murdered is more than 7 times higher.
Aja Raquell Rhone-Spears was attending the vigil of a murder victimPeopleBy Harriet SokmensuerAugust 03, 2020Police in Oregon are investigating the killing of a transgender woman who was fatally stabbed at a vigil for a murder victim Tuesday night.Aja Raquell Rhone-Spears, 33, was attending the vigil of murder victim Tyrell Penney when she and one other person were stabbed, according to a Portland police statement. The vigil, which was held near the 15800 block of Southeast Division, moved to a home with 20 to 30 people in attendance, including Rhone-Spears.[...]Police said in the statement that despite "multiple witnesses" being present, they "encountered hostility and a lack of cooperation." No arrests have been made.
This year is on track to be one of the deadliest for transgender Americans, particularly trans women of color, according to the Human Rights Campaign.NBC Out NewsBy Sakshi VenkatramanAugust 4, 2020Rosa Diaz and her daughter were riding their motorcycles through rural Brawley, California, this year when they noticed a young person who appeared lost walking down the town's main street. Diaz, who runs the only LGBTQ resource center for miles, sensed that the person might be in need of support.[…]"I asked her for her name," and the person shared a male name, Diaz said in an interview. "I said, 'Is there another name that you prefer?' And that's when she told me, 'Well, I like Marilyn.'"Diaz asked her whether she needed anything. "I need a new wig," Diaz recalled Marilyn saying, gesturing to her worn clothes and hairpiece. Diaz gave her a business card, and Marilyn promised to call her after the weekend. Diaz's team found her a wig, but the call never came.[…]Marilyn Cazares, 22, was found dead last month in an abandoned building in Brawley, about a half-hour north of the Mexican border. It has been a particularly deadly year for trans people — especially trans women of color. In 2019, 27 trans people died because of violence in total. In 2020, the number has already reached 25, according to the Human Rights Campaign.
Damion Campbell also indicted on two charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weaponKSATJuly 31, 2020SAN ANTONIO – Bexar County grand juries handed down nearly 230 felony indictments this week, including one against the man behind a deadly barbershop attack back in May.
In another KSAT article about the murder…
SAN ANTONIO – UPDATE: San Antonio police have arrested a man in the slaying of a 20-year-old at a Northwest Side barber shop Wednesday afternoon.[…]The affidavit said a female employee was also injured, but was able to run to a nearby business for help. A third employee escaped unharmed.One woman was fatally shot while another was hospitalized with multiple stab wounds after a disturbance turned violent at a Bandera Oaks barber shop, San Antonio police said Wednesday.[…]The owner of the Diesel Barbershop, Shayne Brown, told KSAT his employees were getting ready to reopen the business starting Friday when a man walked in asking to make an appointment.The employees told the man he needed a form of payment, Brown said. The man stepped out to get it, and when he returned, he was armed.
The Trump administration refused asylum for a trans woman who said she was in fear for her life in her home country.
Camila Díaz Córdova was deported from the United States despite telling American asylum officers that she feared for her life in her home country.NBC NewsBy Tim FitzsimonsAugust 3, 2020Three police officers were convicted in a Salvadoran court in the 2019 murder of Camila Díaz Córdova, a transgender woman who had been deported from the United States the year before.The three officers convicted of aggravated homicide July 28 were Jaime Geovany Mendoza Rivas, Luis Alfredo Avelar Sandoval and Carlos Valentín Rosales Carpio, according to the newspaper El Diario De Hoy. Each officer was sentenced to 20 years in prison.Diaz left El Salvador in 2018 and traveled to the U.S. with a migrant caravan to request asylum, as NBC News previously reported. After her claim was rejected, she went back to El Salvador where she reportedly returned to sex work. After midnight on Jan. 31, 2019, she was arrested for public nuisance and intoxication.According to El Diaro De Hoy, she was beaten by the arresting officers in the patrol car and left in the road for dead. She was found and later taken to a hospital where she died from her wounds on Feb. 3, 2019.In 2017, the United Nations called for an investigation into the surge of violence against transgender women in El Salvador. Local LGBTQ groups have counted the killings of at least 600 transgender people since 1993.
The current administration here lacks any moral compass, they are devoid of any empathy or compassion.
Overseas we also face discrimination and violence.
Vladimir Putin’s relentless assault on LGBTQ rights in Russia continues, helped by ex-senator Yekaterina Lakhova, who recently said rainbow-colored ice cream was “gay propaganda.”The Daily BeastBy Anna NemtsovaAugust 03, 2020ST. PETERSBURG, Russia—Dozens of young people were singing lyrics by a local band on Palace Square: “We’ll be together, like Sid and Nancy, we’ll never live long enough to be pensioners.”The warm July night was young. In spite of the dark context of the song, people looked happy. The wind played with a young woman’s rainbow-dyed hair, while she was kissing her girlfriend. That scene was hardly unusual, even in Russia, where authorities ban what they call “gay propaganda,” same-sex marriage and even the rainbow itself.[…]But the Russian repression machine is working full force. The leader of Russia’s Women’s Union, ex-senator Yekaterina Lakhova, recently complained to President Vladimir Putin about an ice cream ad “promoting homosexual behavior among minors” because it included a rainbow, signifying a multi-flavored ice cream.[…]On July 1, Russians voted in a referendum for dozens of constitutional amendments allowing Putin to stay in power until 2036, defining “belief in God” as a Russian national value, and constitutionally banning same-sex marriage.The amendments also allow Russia to ignore international courts’ rulings on cases of human rights violations. Lakhova was one of the amendments’ lobbyists. At a meeting earlier this month, Putin told Lakhova he needed a loyal network of organizations to keep an eye on any type of “gay propaganda” that might come up, since he alone “cannot follow everybody.”
Authoritarians love us.
They love us because they can use us for the scapegoat of everything that is going wrong in their countries. The world disastrous economy is our fault! COVID-19 is our fault. We are being blamed for everything.
Trump was brought up in a family of hate.
Washington BladeBy Chris JohnsonJuly 17, 2020Mary Trump, whose tell-all book reveals new unflattering secrets about her uncle as he pursues re-election, is a lesbian and kept her sexual orientation a secret from her family in the late 1990s, according to multiple media accounts of the book.[…]“Growing up, it was sort of normal to hear them use the N-word or use anti-Semitic expressions,” she reportedly said.Mary Trump added, “Homophobia was never an issue because nobody ever talked about gay people, well, until my grandmother called Elton John” a slur.
In that background you can easily see where Trump gets his hate for us.
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