HRC Posts Video for Transgender Day of Remembrance

[Shana A]

HRC Posts Video for Transgender Day of Remembrance
Filed by: Serena Freewomyn
November 22, 2008 11:30 AM   http://www.bilerico.com/2008/11/hrc_posts_video_for_transgender_day_of_r.php
The HRC posted a video on its website this week to commemorate Transgender Day of Remembrance. It co-opts the images of Lawrence King and Robert Eads, and urges our community to demand hate crimes legislation. 
  Really? Demand hate crimes legislation? F$#@ off HRC! Where were you during the ENDA debates? Oh yeah . . . you were busy chucking the transgender members of our community to the wayside.


And Lawrence King, to my knowledge, didn't identify as trans. He got killed because he didn't conform to traditional standards of masculinity. But that doesn't mean he was trans. You don't get to co-opt the images of murdered children to further the HRC's agenda.