16 Trans Women Have Been Murdered This Year. Here's One Theory Why Cops Haven’t

[stephaniec]

16 Trans Women Have Been Murdered This Year. Here's One Theory Why Cops Haven't Caught the Killer

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/08/police-need-work-their-approach-homicides-transgender-people

Mother Jones/—By Samantha Michaels  Tue Aug. 18, 2015 6:05 AM EDT

"At about 2 a.m. on a Thursday in July, Kenton Haggard, a 66-year-old former security officer, walked through the streets of Fresno, California, wearing a white cardigan and a dress. Near the corner of Blackstone and Cornell streets, someone called Haggard over from the window of an SUV. Haggard crossed the street and approached the passenger side of the vehicle. As Haggard peered into the window, the person inside lunged and stabbed Haggard in the neck. Haggard was left bleeding in the street and died at a hospital later that morning."

[cindianna_jones]

... and this is in California, supposedly the best place in the country for us to live. I live there.

Cindi

[Oriah]

I have lived all over the states. L.A county was the worst by far for acceptance..  I hate cali

[cindianna_jones]

I started in the LA area and had a lot of problems with my job when they found out. I moved to the bay area and had the same crap when the new company I worked for found out. I finally got away from it with the third company I went to work for. So, since the early 90's, the bay area was good for me.

I now live in a different county. Very tea party red and I'm scared to death to let anyone know there.

Cindi

[suzifrommd]

Great article, Stephanie. Shows the evils of misgendering and deadnaming crime victims.

[suzifrommd]

Why Transgender People Are Being Murdered at a Historic Rate

Katy Steinmetz
Time Magazine, Aug. 17, 2015

http://time.com/3999348/transgender-murders-2015/

Transgender people are four times more likely than the general population to report living in extreme poverty, making less than $10,000 per year, a standing that sometimes pushes them to enter the dangerous trade of sex work. Nearly 80% of transgender people report experiencing harassment at school when they were young. As adults, some report being physically assaulted trains and buses, in retail stores and restaurants. Greater awareness has not yet translated into broad acceptance, says Kris Hayashi, executive director of the Transgender Law Center: "The majority of society does not understand who transgender people are in ways that lead to the violence and the murder and the harassment that we're seeing."

[Joelene9]

  I got my Southern Baptist, Teaparty brother living in Fresno where the described murder took place. The L.A. basin is a different place now then where I was born and raised 8 years in the 1950's. There were 2 different demographical changes in my old LA neighborhood since 1960 when I left. It was dairy country when I left with the threat of the San Gabriel highway being built which did happen and that bisected the neighborhood. A different kind of people is there now. The usual urban stuff such as the murders, racial strife and an episode of ethnic cleansing that made the Southern Poverty Law Center (SLPC) take notice.
  Some people are looking for some group to hate. The gays have slipped off of their radar due to the increasing legal protections they now enjoy. Transgender people as a group don't have the protections as of yet. We are one of the lowest people on the poverty rung. It is hard for us to get jobs, medical care and other things as well as trying to get legal help. I am living under the poverty level and the financials are month to month. I had to deplete my retirement savings to get on Medicaid and get another 35 + year old problem attended to. I am legally disabled now due to neuropathy causing mobility problems. I had to put 'male' on my application or I would not get treatment.

Joelene