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Title: Is Transmisogyny Killing Transgender Women?
Post by: stephaniec on August 26, 2015, 01:12:12 AM
Is Transmisogyny Killing Transgender Women?

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbc-out/transmisogyny-killing-transgender-women-n415286

NBC News/by Julie Compton    08/25/2015

"Tiffany Mathieu doesn't shy away from discussing the violence she's experienced as a black transgender woman.

From her Lower East Side apartment in Manhattan, the aspiring social worker talks about being harassed and attacked in the streets and in her own home.

"More than 100," she says, when asked how many times she's been assaulted."