Transgriot: LA Area Transwomen Pissed About Transphobic LA Times Article
by Monica Roberts
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 2013http://transgriot.blogspot.com/2013/02/la-area-transwomen-pissed-about.htmlJust as New York area transwomen were extremely ticked off about the transphobic reporting of the New York that came to a head in the story that was done on Lorena Escalera, our West Coast sisters are highly pissed off about the transphobic reporting in the West Coast's paper of record that has now come to anger raising levels with Sam Quinones' recent LA Times article about Hollywood's sex workers that focused on the murdered Cassidy Vickers.
The Quinones article disrespectfully referred to Vickers and the other trans sex workers as "male hookers dressed as women" and "men with women's breasts and clothes".
It repeatedly referred to Cassidy in violation of the AP Stylebook guidelines for reporting on trans people by her old name and male pronouns. It also disrespected the murdered Cassidy by asserting she was 'a gay male who dresses for attention and money.' And as you wise readers probably guessed, the trans person in question that was disrespected in death by the article was survey says, African-American.
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Link to the criticized article:
http://articles.latimes.com/2013/feb/04/local/la-me-western-bandit-20130204Link to petition drive asking LA Times to respect transgender women:
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/la-times-respect-transgender-women/
