Posted on Advocate.com November 09, 2011 03:25:00 PM ET
Some Transgender Protesters Leave Occupy Wall Street Over Safety Concerns
By Diane Anderson-Minshall
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While police and protesters disagree on the severity of the crimes that have occurred, there's no disputing that some folks are leaving New York's Occupy Wall Street live-in at Zuccotti Park over safety concerns. The New York Times' Todd Heisler reports that despite a formidable security team and a plainclothes police presence, assaults at OWS have increased, though protesters blame some of that activity on homeless residents who've moved into the area.
To increase the sense of safety for female protesters, Heisler says, the activists have set up a large women's-only tent on the south side of the park and there are plans to construct a tent for transgender protesters. But according to Nate Barchus, a facilitator of the LGBT contingent at OWS, at least 28 protesters — 12 of them transgender men and women, and the rest nontrans women — have abandoned the park in recent days because they feared for their safety.
Do they elaborate on why trans people have to have their own space? Why can't the trans women share the women's only space?
This smacks of more womyn-born-womyn bull->-bleeped-<-.
leaves transmen in danger
Occupy is getting out of control.
Our cops need to fight draculas not hippies.
Quote from: Mahsa the disco shark on November 13, 2011, 12:00:56 AM
Occupy is getting out of control.
Our cops need to fight draculas not hippies.
I think our cops need to battle ignorance and poor socioeconomic opportunities. (And twilight fans...)
Quote from: Guantanamera on November 13, 2011, 12:15:38 AM
I think our cops need to battle ignorance and poor socioeconomic opportunities. (And twilight fans...)
Team Jacob.
Quote from: Mahsa the disco shark on November 13, 2011, 12:18:26 AM
Team Jacob.
My money's on Alucard or Paladin Anderson. Either one would wipe out the entire Cullin family using Jacob as a beating stick.
Quote from: Sailor_Saturn on November 13, 2011, 01:50:45 AM
My money's on Alucard or Paladin Anderson. Either one would wipe out the entire Cullin family using Jacob as a beating stick.
Bladerunner anyone? (I bet even measly Lestat could wipe out those glitterly types.)
This is both sad and enlightening on so many levels.
Quote from: Guantanamera on November 13, 2011, 05:00:09 AM
Bladerunner anyone? (I bet even measly Lestat could wipe out those glitterly types.)
None of them could stand against Lestat! lol
Not like it matters anymore.
They had a nice 45~ day run.
Let dracula serve in the army!