Teonna Monae Brown was just sentenced to five years in prison for the brutal beating of Chrissy Lee Polis, a trans woman, at a McDonald’s restaurant in Rosedale, Maryland. The sentence was actually ten years, with five years suspended, plus three years probation after the sentence is served. Some trans activists think the sentence is [...]
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Prison Without Education Serves No One
Posted in Commentary, tagged crime, legal, restrooms, transphobia on September 15, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Ask Matt Monday: Comments on the Maryland McDonald’s Assault
Posted in Ask Matt, Commentary, Observations, tagged crime, discrimination, hate crimes legislation, Internet, legal, restrooms, transphobia on April 25, 2011 | 17 Comments »
A few people have asked me what I think about the brutal attack on a trans woman by two other women at a McDonald’s near Baltimore, Maryland, last week. A McDonald’s employee filmed the attack, and the video is all over the Internet. If you have not yet seen it, beware – it is quite [...]
Ask Matt Monday: How Do I Deal With Threats?
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, tagged community, crime, discrimination, legal, transphobia on February 7, 2011 | 5 Comments »
A reader writes: “How do you deal with weekly threats? I’ve been to the police and the mayor and have not been taken seriously. “I live in a rural conservative enclave in a ‘blue’ state. I am intersex and trans and my partner is trans. Our property has been defaced, people make open comments when [...]
Losing a Crown, Losing a Life: Is There a Relationship?
Posted in Commentary, tagged crime, discrimination, education, gender expression, gender identity, gender roles, transphobia on September 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Recently, Michigan high school student Oakleigh Marshall Reed, a young man who was running for homecoming king at Mona Shores High School, was denied the chance for the crown because he is transgender. Different stories are floating around, including that he won the majority vote of the students but was told he was ineligible, and [...]
I Finally Saw ‘Ticked-Off T******s With Knives’
Posted in Commentary, Observations, tagged crime, film, gender expression, gender roles, trans women on September 20, 2010 | 14 Comments »
I’ve been waiting for a while to see Ticked-Off Asterisks With Knives (which is now being billed as “The Movie GLAAD Doesn’t Want You To See” – oh, please … like that’s going to lure people to the theater). I’ve followed the fray online, but did not want to jump in with an opinion until [...]
Ask Matt: Looking for a Trans-Friendly City
Posted in Advice, Ask Matt, Information, Observations, tagged Angie Zapata, Colorado, community, crime, employment, ENDA, transphobia on July 23, 2010 | 13 Comments »
“How can I find a trans-friendly city?” For this “Ask Matt” question, I definitely want to enlist the help of my readers. I personally think that many cities in Colorado are great places to live and the state, for the most part, is trans friendly. Yes, we have discrimination here – and hate crimes. But [...]
Lance Reyna: More Violence Against Trans Men
Posted in Commentary, News, tagged crime, gender expression, homophobia, LGBT, sexual orientation, trans men, transphobia on June 28, 2010 | 6 Comments »
First Colle Carpenter, now Lance Reyna. And there have been many more — some unreported by the victim, some misreported by the press, some buried on the back page. But although the attacks on trans men have not yet reached the numbers we see with trans women (and probably won’t, for several reasons), they are [...]
Memorial Day: The Transgender Community’s List Keeps Growing
Posted in Commentary, Observations, tagged crime, holidays, Memorial Day, Remembering Our Dead, suicide, transphobia on May 31, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Today, I’m going to link to two posts that I wrote last year regarding Memorial Day and remembering our community’s dead. Unfortunately, the list keeps growing. Our community continues to experience a high rate of violent deaths, and most of those are trans women. This hasn’t stopped. I’m not even sure it has slowed down. [...]
Violence Against Colle Carpenter Reflects Our Ongoing Dehumanization
Posted in Commentary, Information, News, Observations, tagged Angie Zapata, being out, Colle Carpenter, crime, legal, trans men, trans women, transphobia on May 8, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Colle Carpenter, a trans man who was physically assaulted on the Cal State Long Beach campus, spoke out last week about his assault at a rally that was organized in response to the violence. Carpenter, a student at the college, was shoved into a campus bathroom stall about two weeks ago, and his attacker slashed [...]
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Transgender Day of Remembrance: Small Reasons for Hope
Posted in Commentary, Information, Observations, tagged community, crime, discrimination, International Transgender Day of Remembrance, LGBT, transphobia on November 14, 2011 | 7 Comments »
As International Transgender Day of Remembrance grows near, it appears that this year will, unfortunately, be no different from years before – we will be adding names to the list right up until the actual memorial services take place. Our society reinforces these heinous acts of violence in many ways – through misogyny, institutionalized racism, [...]
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