Stop The Humiliation!!

[datkindagal]

warning this is disturbing (http://homicidewatch.org/2012/02/03/7619/)

This past Thursday, January 2, 2012 another trans victim was assaulted with a knife to the head at a bus stop and as a result has died. While this is inexcusable and intolerable, the local media has heaped another inhuman indignity on the trans woman, by erroneously reporting her as being "male", unnecessarily injecting a coroner's statement in their news report, humiliating her. The Washington DC Metro Police were complicit in this, by allowing and pushing this statement out to the public, also disrespecting her gender identity.

:(

how many fucking candles do we have to light before we get some respect.

[bobbyandmimmi]

We are still second class citizens, how can we get respect?

[datkindagal]

demand it

Transgender woman murdered at D.C. bus stop

An unidentified transgender woman died early Friday morning after being fatally stabbed about 8:15 Thursday night at a Metro bus stop in the 4900 block of East Capitol Street, N.E., D.C. police said.

According to a police statement, the department’s Homicide Branch is investigating the incident. As of Friday afternoon, homicide detectives had not been able to identify the victim.

Earline Budd, an official with the transgender services and advocacy group Transgender Health Empowerment, said investigators planned to bring one or more photos of the victim to the THC office with the hope that someone there could identify the victim.

The police statement says a citizen flagged down a Metro Transit Police officer about 8:13 p.m. Thursday to report an assault at a bus stop.

“Upon arrival, the officer located a transgender female who was unconscious and unresponsive suffering from a stab wound,” the statement says. “Units from the Sixth District and D.C. Fire and Emergency Medical Services personnel responded to the scene. The victim was transported to a local hospital and was admitted in critical condition,” the statement says.

“On Friday, Feb. 3, 2012, at 2:35 a.m., the victim was pronounced dead. The decedent has not been identified at this time,” says the statement.

Captain Edward Delgado, director of the department’s Special Liaison Unit, which oversees the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit, told LGBT activists in an email Thursday night that police have a partial description of a male suspect in the case.

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“Apparently there was a fight with the knife involved,” Delgado said in his email. “An adult female (transgendered) was stabbed at least once to the head by a black male wearing [a] heavy dark coat with [a] grey striped hat.”

The separate statement released by the Metropolitan Police Department’s public information office says police offer a reward of up to $25,000 to anyone that provides information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons wanted for any homicide committed in D.C.

Anyone with information is asked to call police at 202-272-9099 . Anonymous information can be submitted to the department’s “TEXT TIP LINE” by text messaging 50411, the police statement says.

Two transgender women were murdered in the city in separate incidents in 2011. Both cases remain unsolved.

[datkindagal]

I am an Australian and I carry a concealed weapon

let one person stand and tell me I cant protect myself.

I would rather be charged with carrying a concealed weapon or mace then end up in a hole in the ground.

fancy night clubs, sauna's, Frisco holidays, fly by point cards and club med are all surreal concepts to our community

candle shopping again

[datkindagal]

https://www.facebook.com/notes/tran-panthe/global-press-release-response-to-recent-and-mounting-assaults-against-trans-peop/232039540213225

Global Press Release:

Response To Recent And Mounting Assaults Against Trans People in D.C.

On Thursday, February 2nd, a knife attack at a Washington DC bus stop resulted in the death of a trans woman. In response to this brutality, including the unabated spate of violence against trans people, the Trans Panthers Party for Self Defense is creating a Trans DC Response Force dedicated to helping to put an end to the ongoing series of Anti-Trans hate crimes utilizing a diverse range of tactics, eradicating the image that Trans people are easy targets, “jokes” and accurately educating the public about Trans people. We are going to war!
Trans Panthers Party for Self Defense

We are a focused, social-political defensive, direct action and advocacy group for people who are of TS/TG/IS, other Gender Identities. We are respectfully modeled after the Original legendary Black Panther Party. We will be agents of change at the street, community levels on up, to include common political interest of Transgender, Transsexual, Gender and Sex Diverse people. We advocate for rights of all people, this is to include trans, gender diverse and biosexed people of color. We also act as one of several organs to facilitate a political, legal, community voice and united front against oppression of our right to medically correct a sexual birth defect, identify with an inherent gender or to live by our own determination. We have no choice but to create our own community resources against oppression.

Media Contact:
Petra Sanz
Acting Chairperson
Core Committee

Trans Panthers - Party For Self Defense
purplepanthersparty@gmail.com

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Paws Up

Ann Davis
Media and External Communications
Trans Panthers - Party For Self Defense

TPP Soldiers

[datkindagal]

Here is a picture of Deoni Jones, the young Trans woman who was murdered in DC last evening.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/403768_10150533735562883_690957882_9089822_9273901 85_n.jpg RIP <3 :(

[datkindagal]

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[datkindagal]

current conversation in trans circles

fuck gay marriage, what about the basic human rights of trans people

[HubbaHubba]

I would rather be charged with carrying a concealed weapon or mace then end up in a hole in the ground.



gotta agree with you there!