Cleveland Plain Dealer Dehumanizes Murdered Transgender Woman
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By: Laurel Ramseyer
Most newspapers leave the dehumanization of transgender people to the trolls in the online comments. But not Cleveland's Plain Dealer. They bring the sewage right to the surface.
Their article about the discovery of the body of a brutally murdered 20 year old African-American woman, Cemia Acoff, begins with the title "Oddly dressed body found in Olmsted Township pond identified", and goes downhill from there. Here's an excerpt:
Acoff had been stabbed, tied with a piece of rope attached to a block of concrete and dumped into a pond on MacKenzie Road north of Cook Road.
The body was clad in a red Betty Boop tank top, three black bras on top of one another, and a light black hooded jacket. It was naked from the waist down, police said at the time. The rope was tied from the back and also attached to a steel pipe.
Acoff had identified himself as a woman to to RTA officials, according to records.
Police said after they contacted area law enforcement for help identifying the body, Cleveland detectives told them they had a missing person matching its description.
