#trans* hate

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I'm going to textwall. Skip it if you want.

Really fucking horrible day today.

break

Today work was really fucking packed which was expected because it's the first of the month and everyone got their social security checks.  So the unusual part is that we had NO attendants so since the word go I have been running literally the entire floor with some help from my friend Tahana who is a fucking trooper and sweetheart for helping me with 3 of the 5 places I had to run about.  Then after my second break shit went south.  Grave only had one attendant on instead of their two and the two of swing shift that should have been helping were both doing fuck if I know, tahana was on break as well, so I had LITERALLY EVERYTHING to cover.  Then I had to process a jackpot for a guest who could not understand english and as I was trying to get this awkward tax-riddled regulated procedure done another one goes off and NO ONE RESPONDS WHILE I am busy with mine.  NO ONE.  The supervisors get pissed, I end up having to get mine donein a hurry so they could handle the other one.  Then towards the end two calls are given to me while I'm on the other side of the building.  I keep getting called over to others and the dispatcher LITERALLY HARASSES ME with those calls even though I tell her 3 times that I'm on my way and it's taking a while to get there.  Finally I get tired of it, clear them, and ask if I'm coming across clearly because I kept saying I would get them and it would take time.  I get in trouble for this.  Because it's negative radio etiquette.  After all that shit.  And as if that wasn't enough I go to leave and see a guest briefly and say hi.  He says "don't fucking talk to me."  I look at him confused.  "Just keep fucking going, you tranny bitch."  I say have a nice night to the person walking beside him and he literally screams faggot, tranny, bitch, and anything else you could think of.  So here I am.  Crying, broken, and not sure if I should give them my fucking two weeks or hope that tomorrow won't be more of the same.  I just want to be in a coma.  Can I just be in a coma?  Or shot?  Or brutally handicapped?  I can't take it.

[projectqueer]

21 year old Nicol Shakhnazaryan, one of the alleged perps arrested June 20 in the vicious beating of Vivian Diego has plead not guilty to charges of battery with serious bodily injury and assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury in the May 31 attack. Shakhnazaryan's attorney is incredibly claiming self defense for his client.  He asserts that Diego was the aggressor that night and attacked his client and his friends. Yeah, right. That surveillance videotape says otherwise.  But if that tactic of convincing a jury that the videotape is lying worked to get off LA cops shown beating the crap out of Rodney King with their batons back in 1992, I can see why you'd try to run that same legal defense playbook with a white defendant from the San Fernando Valley and a Los Angeles trans Latina victim.in court especially since the Gwen Araujo Justice For Victims Act bans the use of the trans panic defense in California.. Shakhnazaryan faces eight years in jail if he is convicted and is due back in court July 16 to get his preliminary hearing date.  The other people involved in the beating of Diego have yet to be arrested and a $25,000 reward is still being offered in the case for any information that leads to their arrest.

Anyone with information about the attackers should email: [email protected] or call LAPD detectives at: [phone].   

[projectqueer]

Billy Griffin's trial may have ended in a hung jury on June 17, but that wasn't the case for Ashanti Mcalister. The 18 year old Mcalister was one of the five men arrested and charged with the brutal murder of 22 year old transmasculine rapper Evon Young who went missing on New Year's Day.  Mcalister's trial started June 24 and he was found guilty of first degree intentional homicide on June 27. With the conviction, Mcalister is facing a maximum life in prison sentence for the murder of Evon Young with the sentencing soon to come.  37 year old Ron Allen's trial in this case is now set to start on October 7. 23 year old Devin Seaberry plead guilty to a lesser charge of second degree reckless homicide on July 2 in return for their testimony against Griffin, Mcalister and Allen.   Seaberry will be sentenced on October 17. Victor Stewart also plead guilty June 5 to second degree reckless homicide in exchange for his testimony against the other three defendants and will be sentenced on July 23. After having his first one declared a mistrial Milwaukee County Circuit Judge Jeffrey A. Wagner, Billy Griffin is facing a new trial that is scheduled to start September 16.

So if you're keeping score at home on how justice is being served in this Young case here's how its broken down so far. Two defendants (Stewart and Seaberry) have plead guilty to second degree reckless homicide and have yet to be sentenced.  Mcallister has been convicted of first degree intentional homicide and yet to be sentenced.  Ron Allen is still awaiting trial for first degree intentional homicide, and Billy Griffin was tried, a mistrial was declared and he will have to face the judicial music again. I will be keeping track of this Evon Young case until all the defendant have been sentenced to do the time for this heinous crime.   

[projectqueer]

Local activists, community members, business owners and officers of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) gathered at The DC Center, Washington’s LGBT community center, Friday to discuss possible responses to several recent anti-LGBT attacks. 

LINK TW: anti-trans* and gay violence, gun violence

[projectqueer]

TW: anti-trans* hate crime, stabbing/Transgender woman stabbed repeatedly in D.C. attack

By Lou Chibbaro Jr. 

Bree Wallace (Photo courtesy of Ruby Corado.)

D.C. police have declined to confirm whether they have arrested a male suspect for allegedly stabbing a 29-year-old transgender woman as many as 40 times in an abandoned house in Southeast Washington around 1 a.m. on Friday morning. A police report, which lists the incident as an assault with intent to kill, says the stabbing took place at 3038 Stanton Road, S.E. It says the victim, Bree Wallace, managed to run several blocks to the apartment building where she lives on the 2400 block of 15th Place, S.E., before collapsing on the street.

The report says Wallace was taken to Prince George’s Hospital Center in nearby Cheverly, Md., where she was being treated for multiple stab wounds to the back and chest and severe lacerations to both of her hands.

“I don’t know why he did it,” Wallace told the Washington Blade in a phone interview on Sunday from her hospital bed. “He didn’t say anything,” she said in recounting how the incident took place after she recently met the attacker in the neighborhood near where she lives. “The investigation has revealed that this assault with intent to kill was neither random nor a hate crime,” police spokesperson Gwendolyn Crump told the Blade in an e-mail.

But Crump and other police officials have declined to confirm Wallace’s assertion that police told her father that they arrested a suspect in the case late Friday or early Saturday.

“They told my dad,” said Wallace, in recounting to the Blade that a police investigator informed her father that an arrest had been made.

Trans activists Earline Budd and Ruby Corado, who know Wallace, said she told them she and the attacker had known each other casually prior to the attack. Corado said Wallace told her the attacker sent her a text message asking to meet up with her at the location where the stabbing occurred. Corado told the Blade that Wallace informed her that at some point she declined the man’s request that the two become romantically or sexually involved. Corado said Wallace was a client at Casa Ruby, an LGBT community center with outreach to the Latino and trans communities for which Corado serves as director.

Wallace was also among 12 contestants chosen as a trans “calendar girl” in a fundraising contest sponsored by Casa Ruby as part of a Casa Ruby program to help train clients as makeup artists, Corado said. Budd said the victim had also been one of her clients at Transgender Health Empowerment, a trans advocacy and services organization that recently has curtailed its operations due to financial problems.

[projectqueer]

One of the wastes of DNA suspected of being involved in the brutal May 31 transphobic hate assault on Vivian Diego was arrested by LAPD Hollywood Division detectives in the San Fernando Valley 21 year old Nicol Shakhnazaryan, was arrested Thursday night on felony battery charges for the May 31 attack and is being held on a $1.05 million bond.  LAPD with an assist from the FBI are searching for the other three suspects and the $25,000 reward for information leading to their capture is still in effect.  One down, three to go.

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by Corinne Pinfold 

TW: misgendering, mention of suicide, blatant cissexism, and otherwise disgusting anti-trans* rhetoric

A TV host in Canada has claimed that the parents of a trans girl have committed child abuse by allowing her to live according to her gender identity, and says it amounts to a “fetish”. Coy made the news in February after her parents lodged a complaint on her behalf after her school refused to let her use the girls’ bathrooms, saying she would have to use facilities for boys, teachers, or ill students instead.

Michael Coren, a British-Canadian talk show host, made an “investigation” into Coy’s situation earlier this month, and broadcast his views as a segment on conservative news channel Sun News Network. Mr Coren refers to Coy as a boy throughout the segment, titled “Not Born This Way”, and uses male pronouns as he talks about his “disdain” for the situation, even going as far as to say Coy should be taken from her parents.

He addresses the reports that Coy rejected toys and clothes for boys and showed signs of wanting to live as a girl from a young age.

“So what?” Mr Coren asks. “The role of a parent is to guide, guard, form the child, not to surrender to his every whim. Kids want to dress as Batman and jump from windows and fly,” he adds. “Before he could speak properly his mother and his father decided that he was born into the wrong gender,” said Mr Coren. He argues that Coy’s parents put the idea of living as a girl in her head, saying ”there is parental and medical abuse on display in abundance”.

Mr Coren goes on to say that Coy’s parents are “beyond my disdain”, calling their acceptance of her gender identity a “fetish”, and calling on authorities to take Coy away from them. The alternative for Coy, he suggests, is a life of “agonising surgery [and] attempted suicide”. Warning that there is “a growing campaign to normalise this sort of issue”, Mr Coren then invites the opinion of a “former” trans woman, who claims that gender reassignment is “surgical drag”.

Sun News, which hosts Mr Coren’s show, have advertised themselves as being “less politically correct” than other, more popular news channels.