Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives Protested
Transgender women rallied in New York City Tuesday evening to demand that the Tribeca Film Festival remove the "transphobic" movie Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives from its lineup later this month.
By Julie Bolcer
http://www.advocate.com/Arts_and_Entertainment/Entertainment_News/Tribeca_Protested_for_Ticked_Off_Trannies_With_Knives/A group of transgender women and their allies gathered Tuesday evening outside the Tribeca Film Center in downtown Manhattan to demand that film festival organizers drop four scheduled screenings of Ticked-Off Trannies With Knives in late April.
"We want our humanity to be respected, and to shake the toxic and oppressive stigma off our community, stigma like this film inspires," said Ashley Love of Media Advocates Giving National Equality to Trans People (MAGNET), which organized the protest with other transgender advocates. Love said MAGNET met with festival organizers in late March, but Tribeca refused to remove the film.
