Prosecutors: Transgender prostitute charged with punching alderman

[stephaniec ✅]

Prosecutors: Transgender prostitute charged with punching alderman

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-alderman-punched-charges-met-20150810-story.html 🔗

Chicago Tribune/By Steve Schmadeke  08/10/2015

A "22-year-old prosecutors allege is a prostitute was ordered released by a Cook County judge on felony charges stemming from an attack on a South Side alderman early Sunday morning..
Judge Donald Panarese Jr. denied a prosecution motion to place Cordale Profit, 22, on electronic monitoring.

"This happened at 3:30 in the morning?" asked Panarese, looking puzzled.

The judge then ordered Profit to stay away from 17th Ward Ald. David Moore."

[suzifrommd]

I failed to find any reason why her gender identity had to be part of the headline or was in any way relevant to the story. The headline didn't mention her race, for example.

This is the sort of thing our community needs to speak out about.

[suzifrommd]

I reported this to glaad media watch.

[ChiGirl]

Sadly, the Tribune's coverage of the incident was better than others in Chicago.  Most articles called her a man.

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[stephaniec ✅]

Chicago and politicians. You should of seen the uproar when an art student put a bra and panties on Mayor Harold Washington for his student art project

[traci_k]

Give some credit to the local PBS radio station. when I first heard the story, they just reported her as a prostitute. They've actually done quite a few good stories on transgender issues.