It makes sense

[Shana A]

It makes sense

Written by Queen Emily
November 20th, 2010 at 7:43 am

http://www.questioningtransphobia.com/?p=3468

The trans community's marked by violence – so many of us have experienced it, live with it, and so many of us die from it. When we hear that one of us have died, we remember the violence we faced, the threats, the fear we live with.

And yet, whenever a trans person is murdered, the very first thing we trans people have to do is sort through the layers and layers of transphobic misinformation from police, media and families in order to work out who that person was, how they lived their life, what their appropriate pronouns and identifications were.

Because the words are almost always wrong, and almost always an act of erasure.