My understanding is that most of these murder victims were involved in criminal activities at the time of their demise, usually prostitution. This is not surprising given that the "transgender community" in a cult like way brainwashes trans people that they have no real chance of transitioning to their chosen gender, and that they will forever be freaks who have to stay in that "transgender community" for protection and sell their bodies to survive.
If the "transgender community" really wants to move beyond funerals and memorial services they need to get their trans youth back in school to get the skills they need to be employable. They'll also need to demand junkyard dog enforcement of antidiscrimination laws as well as hate crime laws. That's the path to mainstream america and every successful minority has followed it. The intersex folks have followed that path all along and the transsexuals followed that path off the streets three decades ago. When is the transgender community going to get their young people off the streets and into the workplaces?
not holding my breath in Hawthorne,
Dyna Sluyter
On Friday, November 19, 2004, at 01:40 AM, David Strand wrote:
In light of the numerous reported violent attacks on transgender people in Minneapolis this summer and fall, here is an opportunity to show the community is opposed to such acts of bias motivated violence.
David Strand Loring Park -------------------------------------------------- This Saturday, November 20 is the 6th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance, a national day set aside to memorialize those who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice: www.gender.org/remember/day
A community-wide memorial service will be held at 7 p.m. at Spirit of the Lakes United Church of Christ (13th and Lake Streets, 2930 - 13th Ave S), Minneapolis.
The program will include TransVoices, our own community choir.
I hope you will all try to participate in memory of the 22 victims killed during the past 12 months.
Any questions? E-mail Barbara Satin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or call 612-670-1978
Additionally, on the University of Minnesota St Paul campus, the Minnesota Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA) and other campus organizations including the GLBT Programs Office and the Queer Student Cultural Center are co-sponsoring two events this week to raise awareness around transphobic violence:
MINCAVA 6th Annual Transgender Day of Remembrance Memorial Wall November 15-22, 2004 � Peters Hall Atrium, 1404 Gortner Ave., St. Paul Campus (http://onestop.umn.edu/Maps/PetH/) The MN Center Against Violence and Abuse (MINCAVA) will display over 500 names and stories of people who were killed due to anti-transgender hatred or prejudice from 1972 to 2004. Please feel free to bring any items to decorate the Memorial Wall to commemorate the lives of those who have been killed.
� The film, �Boys Don�t Cry� will be shown from 11:30AM to 1:30PM Friday, Nov. 19 in Room 39, Peters Hall, St Paul Campus. The film explores the true-life story of Brandon Teena, a transgender man, who was brutally raped and killed in rural Nebraska in 1993. Attendees may bring lunch to the movie. Light refreshments will be served.
For more information about these campus events, contact Yukiko Nakajima, graduate assistant, MINCAVA, at (612) 624-3059
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