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Title: Because we're disposable
Post by: Natasha on August 24, 2008, 03:13:13 PM
Because we're disposable

http://birdofparadox.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/because-were-disposable/ (http://birdofparadox.wordpress.com/2008/08/23/because-were-disposable/)
8/23/2008


Another of my sisters is dead.

Another trans panic defence accepted.  Another killer acquitted of murder.

"Voluntary manslaughter"?

Could there possibly be a more dehumanising, demeaning term?

Two and a half years after her death, Alexis King is still denied dignity.

Why? Because trans women are disposable, our lives are worthless. Even
the law agrees.
Title: Re: Because we're disposable
Post by: Elwood on August 24, 2008, 05:03:08 PM
There is no such thing as "trans panic."

The bastards. They murder these girls because they're bigots. "OMG A ->-bleeped-<-GOT -STABS-" They're not defending themselves. This is a hate crime.