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No, Seeing a Transgender Person is Not a Reason to Call 911

Started by Willowicious, December 09, 2015, 06:23:03 AM

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December 09, 2015, 06:23:03 AM
No, Seeing a Transgender Person is Not a Reason to Call 911

Chase Strangio
ACLU
DECEMBER 8, 2015 | 12:15 PM

https://www.aclu.org/blog/speak-freely/no-seeing-transgender-person-not-reason-call-911

""911, what's your emergency?"

There are a lot of situations that may warrant calling 911. But seeing a transgender person is not one of them. But that's exactly what a hotel manager in West Des Moines, Iowa, did when Meagan Taylor and her friend, both Black transgender women, checked into the hotel."


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lisarenee

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December 11, 2015, 06:12:00 PM
While, we do need to target the assumption that trans = prostitute...another issue is at work here - laws against renting rooms to people you "should have known" were prostitutes. I remember a number (~2000 to 2001) of years ago the police doing a sting where they had women go to hotels and rent rooms, dropping hints that they were prostitutes. The police arrested any hotel clerk that rented them a room. These laws combined with a stereotype that trans = prostitute create a situation where clerks feel like they have to deny us a room or call the police on us.
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