Comments on: Say Their Names: Murders of Trans People Skyrocket in 2015

By: rq

rq — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 12:45:28 +0000

The list is far too long.
I can’t get over the smiles in all the pictures.

By: HappiestSadist, Repellent Little Martyr

HappiestSadist, Repellent Little Martyr — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 01:00:23 +0000

And two days before TDoR: Yoshi Tsuchida, who was horrifically killed, and then he and his adopted daughter were misgendered in the press.

(TW: *points to sentence above*)

http://www.advocate.com/transgender/2015/11/18/japanese-trans-man-brutally-maimed-and-murdered-tokyo

By: StevoR

StevoR — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 08:23:59 +0000

@ ^ Tony & AMM & Lesbian Catnip : Agreed and spot on. Seconded by me.

By: gertrud

gertrud — Sat, 21 Nov 2015 05:00:09 +0000

I want to throw in that Erin Vernon, a woman local to my area, died because the hospital that she went to insisted that she was overdosing on drugs, and she died of gas gangrene because they refused to check her thoroughly or treat her. It’s murder by medical neglect, and it is probably very common for trans people and particularly for trans women.

Thank you so much.

By: Tony! The Queer Shoop

Tony! The Queer Shoop — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 17:12:39 +0000

Dana:
Good post, and I’m glad you found several images to put faces to the names. I hope that will help some people view these trans women genderfluid folks as human beings who had their lives horrifically and tragically cut short.

By: Lesbian Catnip

Lesbian Catnip — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 13:12:18 +0000

Might put*. D’oh.

By: Lesbian Catnip

Lesbian Catnip — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 13:12:02 +0000

Wish more people would notice how frackin’ happy they are in these pictures. Might be transitioning in perspective for a cis person.

By: AMM

AMM — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 10:17:01 +0000

I suspect that it’s not so much that the rate of trans people being murdered has skyrocketted as that we’re finding out about more of them. All my life I’ve heard whispered mentions of “transvestite prostitutes,” so I know that trans people (many of them WOC) have been around, and been treated like perverts and refuse whose disappearance was hardly worth taking note of (at least, not by anybody who counted.) I’m not sure when groups sprang up to keep track of trans murders, but I know they weren’t around 20 years ago.
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(Somewhat OT:)

I want to say how much I appreciate all the people standing up for and accepting trans people these days. I’m not a brave person, so despite having had those indescribable feelings of alienation all my life, it was only recently that I was able to consider the possibility that they meant I was trans. (Despite my being pretty much on the stop of the privilege pyramid in every other way.) For all of the transphobia that still exists, it is so much better than it was even 20 years ago, even 10. Yes, we have our Leelah Alcorns, but we also have our Jazz Jennings. We have our Zella Zionis, but we also have our LaVerne Coxes. 50 years ago, when I was their age, Leelah would have been silently buried under her deadname with a whispered “perhaps it is all for the best” and her name would have died with her. Jazz would have been subjected to the usual abusive treatments society and especially the psychiatric profession used to cure “deviants” and grown up to be an emotional cripple, if she’d survived to adulthood at all. Yes, we have Pope Bergoglio and Michelle Duggar and the whole Republican presidential clown car insisting we aren’t human, but we also have more and more people standing up for us. This gives me hope, if not for me, then for those of our children’s and grandchildren’s generation.