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Title: Article: Someone tell me that I'll live....
Post by: Muffinheart on March 01, 2015, 02:09:28 PM
Post by: Muffinheart on March 01, 2015, 02:09:28 PM
Someone Tell Me That I'll Live: On Murder, Media, and Being a Trans Woman in 2015
Kai Cheng Thom FEB 28, 2015
http://www.xojane.com/issues/someone-tell-me-that-ill-live-murdered-trans-women-2015?utm_source=FBPAGE&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=Issues
When I was 19, I read an article in Guernica magazine stating that the average life span of a transgender person is 23 years old. The article confirmed what I had already known for about a decade: I was doomed to a nasty, short, and miserable life. I was going to be poor, maybe homeless, definitely unemployable. I was going to be subjected to emotional and sexual violence (and in fact, I already had been), and then I was going to die, probably brutally murdered. They would print the wrong name on my grave. You know, the good old transgender story...........
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Interesting article, not sure if I posted in right category
Edited to fit news posting guidelines
Kai Cheng Thom FEB 28, 2015
http://www.xojane.com/issues/someone-tell-me-that-ill-live-murdered-trans-women-2015?utm_source=FBPAGE&utm_medium=post&utm_campaign=Issues
When I was 19, I read an article in Guernica magazine stating that the average life span of a transgender person is 23 years old. The article confirmed what I had already known for about a decade: I was doomed to a nasty, short, and miserable life. I was going to be poor, maybe homeless, definitely unemployable. I was going to be subjected to emotional and sexual violence (and in fact, I already had been), and then I was going to die, probably brutally murdered. They would print the wrong name on my grave. You know, the good old transgender story...........
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Interesting article, not sure if I posted in right category
Edited to fit news posting guidelines
Title: Re: Article: Someone tell me that I'll live....
Post by: Jayne on March 01, 2015, 05:22:19 PM
Post by: Jayne on March 01, 2015, 05:22:19 PM
One of the lines early in that article really hit home, the thought/worry that when i die the wrong name will be on my tombstone.
For some reason, as I saw 40 approaching on the horizon this was one of the thoughts that dominated my mind, I don't know why it felt so important to prevent this from occurring, it's not as if I'll be around to care but it was one of the very strong factors that pushed me over the edge
For some reason, as I saw 40 approaching on the horizon this was one of the thoughts that dominated my mind, I don't know why it felt so important to prevent this from occurring, it's not as if I'll be around to care but it was one of the very strong factors that pushed me over the edge
Title: Re: Article: Someone tell me that I'll live....
Post by: suzifrommd on March 01, 2015, 05:35:17 PM
Post by: suzifrommd on March 01, 2015, 05:35:17 PM
I'm troubled by the 23 year figure. There is no attribution in the Guernica article, and I don't know how they could possibly know this. To my knowledge there are basically no longitudinal studies that follow trans people through their lifetimes. Heck we don't even know how many there are.
This strikes me as one of the 82% of statistics that are totally made up.
This strikes me as one of the 82% of statistics that are totally made up.
Title: Re: Article: Someone tell me that I'll live....
Post by: mrs izzy on March 01, 2015, 05:43:32 PM
Post by: mrs izzy on March 01, 2015, 05:43:32 PM
I read half truth in what statics say due to being weighted based on old studies or assumptions based on a flawed societies education.
Hard getting good data when how many places are there masses of LGBTQ in one place and willing to give truths
Hard getting good data when how many places are there masses of LGBTQ in one place and willing to give truths