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New York: The City Where Transphobia Never Sleeps

Started by Shana A, April 01, 2010, 07:24:11 AM

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Shana A

April 01, 2010, 07:24:11 AM
Wednesday, March 31, 2010
New York: The City Where Transphobia Never Sleeps

http://skipthemakeup.blogspot.com/2010/03/new-york-city-where-transphobia-never.html

Amanda Gonzalez-Andujar was a 29-year old trans woman who was found murdered by stabbing in her apartment in Queens, NY yesterday. Her apartment had been ransacked and much of her possessions destroyed. Every two days, a trans woman is murdered somewhere in the world.

How did New York Media report on this horrific murder? It universally referred to her in their stories by her assigned male birth name. Many of the stories used male pronouns even though they knew she was trans. The police initially identified her as a murdered woman only to amend that statement with the information she was "a man."
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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