So you’re augment that you don’t find my gender to be a radical act, is quite frankly unsurprising.
I hate hearing this from both trans people and cis people.
I was guilty of this at one point.
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These are graph from “Injustice at Every Turn” showing rate of sexual assault in jail/prison. The first graph is the rates of sexual assaults for trans women by race. The rates break down as follows:
- Nineteen percent of all trans women who went to jail/prison
- Thirty-eight percent of Black trans women
- Thirty percent of America Indians trans women
- Twenty-five percent of trans Latinas
- Twenty-four percent of multiracial trans women
- Twelve percent of White trans women
- Too small of a sample to report for Asian Pacific Islander trans women
According to “Injustice at Every Turn,” a report of institutionalized discrimination against trans people: “Transgender women of color were particularly vulnerable to sexual assault in jail/prison. Thirty-eight percent (38%) of Black [trans women] respondents reported being sexually assaulted by either another inmate or a staff member in jail/prison.”
Multiracial, Latina, Black and American Indian trans women are twice to more then three times as likely as White trans women to be sexually assaulted in prison.
This is the only statistic in the report that simultaneously accounts for both the race and gender of participants. Taken by themselves trans women and trans people of color experience higher rates of discrimination than trans men, nonbinary and white trans people.
The second graph shows sexual assault rates in prison/jail by gender. The rates are for trans women:
- Eighteen percent by inmates
- Seven percent by staff
- Twenty percent by anyone
For trans men:
- Two percent by inmates
- Four percent by staff
- Six percent by anyone
For all trans people:
- Fourteen percent by inmates
- Seven percent by staff
- Sixteen percent by anyone
Gender nonconforming people:
- Six percent by inmates
- Four percent by staff
- Eight percent by anyone
Trans women in jail/prison are three to nine times as likely to be sexually assaulted by inmates, nearly twice as likely to be sexually assaulted by staff, and about three (2.5 - 3.33) times as likely to be sexually assaulted by anyone when compared to trans men and gender nonconforming people in jail/prison.
The third graph shows sexual assault rates in prison/jail by race. These break down for all trans people who went to jail/prison:
- Thirteen percent by inmates
- Six percent by staff
- Fifteen percent by anyone
American Indian (sample size too small for reliable analysis):
- Twenty-seven percent by inmates
- Eighteen percent by staff
- Twenty-seven percent by anyone
Asian Pacific Islander (sample size too small for reliable analysis):
- Six percent by inmates
- Six percent by staff
- Eleven percent by anyone
Black:
- Thirty-two percent by inmates
- Nine percent by staff
- Thirty-four percent by anyone
Latin@:
- Twenty-one percent by inmates
- Seven percent by staff
- Twenty-four percent by anyone
White:
- Seven percent by inmates
- Four percent by staff
- Nine percent by anyone
Multiracial:
- Fourteen percent by inmates
- Eight percent by staff
- Sixteen percent by anyone
With a similar break down to that of the first graph showing race and gender, trans people of color in jail/prison are significantly more likely to be sexually assaulted when compared to White trans people in jail/prison.
i wonder what the exact statistic is for nonbinary trans people
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Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal
The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it, reblog it, ask your friends to sign it. We’ve managed to get 40K signatures for a pageant model, we’ve only gotten 11K for a little girl about to have her life ruined. Lets get on the ball and spread the word.
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Ain't born typical: Trans LGBTQ Activist, Agnes Torres Sulca, Found Murdered in Mexico
tw: murder
An advocate for the Mexican lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans, and queer (LGBTQ) community, Agnes Torres Sulca, was found murdered in Atlixco, Puebla this past Saturday, March 10.
According to reports from the State Attorney’s Office, the body of Agnes…Que pena! My heart goes out to this womans family. Another sister was taken from us. Violence against transwomen of color continues to sky rocket world wide, and the only thing queers want is marriage equality..? smh
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Sylvia Rivera, Julia Murray & Randy Wicker looking fabulous at Uplift Lighting. Photos by Randy Wicker & Diane Daives
I <3 Sylvia Rae Rivera. She is one of the biggest role models in my life. I wish I could have had a chance to meet her.
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“Look… Look again, and see beyond prejudice. I am trans. I have the right to be who I am.”
Main targets of discriminatory violence, trans women around the country have created material to raise awareness against prejudice. The campaign to promote human rights and prevention of AIDS contains ring tones, screensavers and mobile videos, posters and brochure.
It is the first time that the trans women produce and create the concept of a material intended for themselves. With the slogan “I am a trans. I have a right to be who I am, “the proposal is to promote social inclusion and positive image of trans women, and disseminate knowledge about ways of preventing AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases, in addition to combating violence and discrimination.
“How are victims of violence and the difficulty of access to public services like health and education, transvestites become more vulnerable to HIV infection,” explains the director of the Department of STD, AIDS and Viral Hepatitis, Mariangela Simao produce their own material, he says, makes the protagonists of their own stories. In real life, they are not heard nor seen. Not adequately accommodated in health services, they also have more difficulties in using the instruments necessary for the prevention of STDs and other health problems.”This series poster series is really dope.
(Source: transfeminism)
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Ftm photography project
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The first fashion show designed to accentuate a transsexual silhouette. My woman is not afraid to take a chance in fashion. Her wardrobe is sexy and avant-garde, but constructed in a way that makes her look sophisticated and elegant. She is a chic trendsetter who loves to re-define how fashion is worn. My collection fundamentally celebrates the woman in a man’s body, as well as personifies the subcultures values and goals in a confident way.
This is sooooo RAD! Transgender fashion with a hint of Activism! <3
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Defend CeCe McDonald! Self-Defense is Not a Crime! Stand up Against Racism and Transphobia!
An important case demands our support. Crishaun “CeCe” McDonald, a young Black transgender woman faces two counts of second degree murder for defending her friends and herself from physical attacks by a group shouting ugly racist and homophobic insults.
Please contact the Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman and demand he drop the charges against CeCe:
612-348-5540 fax * 612-348-2042 * citizeninfo@co.hennepin.mn.us
Please bring this case before local GLBTQ groups, Black Community organizations, Unions and community groups, Occupy assemblies and anywhere people are struggling for freedom and justice. An Injury to One is an Injury to All!
According to the Support CeCe website http://supportcece.wordpress.com:
“Around 12:30 am on June 5, CeCe and four of her friends (all of them black) were on their way to Cub Foods to get some food. As they walked past the Schooner Tavern in South Minneapolis, a man and two women (all of them white) began to yell epithets at them. They called CeCe and her friends ‘faggots,’ ‘niggers,’ and ‘chicks with dicks,’ and suggested that CeCe was ‘dressed as a woman’ in order to ‘rape’ Dean Schmitz, one of the attackers.”
“As they were shouting, one of the women smashed her drink into the side of CeCe’s face, slicing her cheek open, lacerating her salivary gland, and stinging her eyes with liquor. A fight ensued, with more people joining in. What happened during the fight is unclear, but within a few minutes Dean Schmitz had been fatally stabbed. CeCe was later arrested, and is now falsely accused of murder.”
The coroners report showed Schmitz had a large nazi swastika tattoo.
CeCe now faces a Justice system that is anything but. African-Americans are imprisoned in Minnesota and the U.S. at rates far disproportionate to the population. Black defendants incur greater rates of conviction and harsher sentences than whites, especially when the alleged victim is white. In fact the CeCe Support Committee has documented four separate recent instances when the local Hennepin County Attorney has declined to press charges when a white person killed an alleged attacker.
Likewise the Criminal Justice system is grossly discriminatory against transgender defendents. Trans people are routinely placed in isolation and/or subjected to increased sexual violence, harassment, and abuse at the hands of prisoners and corrections facility staff. Cece herself “was kept in solitary confinement “for her own protection”; she had no say in this matter. Finally, she was transferred to a psychiatric unit in the Public Safety Facility. It was nearly two months before she was taken back to a doctor to check up on the wound on her face, which by then had turned into a painful, golf ball-sized lump”, according to the CeCe Support Group website.
The Hennepin County Attorney, Mike Freeman, is the Democratic Farmer-Labor Party politician responsible for prosecuting CeCe. Previously Freeman unsuccessfully prosecuted an Anti-Racist Action activist for defending himself from a neo-nazi at an anti-fascist demonstration in 1993. Freeman’s office also led the racist railroading of the young African-American men known as the “Minnesosta 8″ for the shooting of a police officer in 1992.
CeCe had every right to defend herself and her friends from this assault. Black folks, queer folks, and trans people deal with enough insult and abuse from bosses, the police, school, and other official institutions without having to worry about physical attacks just for being who they are. Racist and transphobic violence cannot be tolerated. Silence and inaction will only aid the perpetuation of white supremacy, sexism, homophobia and transphobia inherent in the structure of this oppressive and exploitive system. The necessary unity to defeat this system requires the solidarity of all of us – not just lowest common-denominator unity that favors the most privileged – but defense of the most oppressed and exploited. As the social crisis sharpens, the need for self-defense from both individual bigots and from a system built on white supremacy and patriarchy will only increase.
A strong support group, based among young transgender activists and including anarchists, has come together to defend CeCe. First of May Anarchist Alliance pledges our solidarity as well. We will work to make this case well known among working class activists and organizers and help to raise the costs for the prosecutor and the system he represents for carrying out this injustice.
First of May Anarchist Alliance
m1aa.org
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Erasure of Transgender Youth in the Sex Trade
Presentation by Emi Koyama on November 20, 2011.
Transcription of slides (Slides transcribed by Amber Yust on November 21, 2011.)
A really well developed presentation. Every person who considers themselves a trans* activist should make sure to read through this lecture.
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“TRANS” is a feature documentary now in post-production, scheduled for exclusive release in selected festivals and markets in early 2012. For more information, go to TransTheMovie.com. It offers a “up-close and very personal journey into the transgender world.” Watch the trailer.
Read more: http://www.andersoncooper.com/2011/11/15/trans-documentary/#ixzz1du3xjXvkTRANS (by SexSmartFilms)
Thank you for sharing this, I can’t wait to watch it in it’s entirety. But, where are the transfolks of color?
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Marimacho is a masculine clothing line for female and transgender bodies. We are the first fashion house to offer a full seasonal line of masculine clothes tailored for women and transmen. We design in-house, manufacture locally and distribute our entire line via our website.
(The clothing collection is very small and expensive, but I’m glad that this place exists)
(via leotron)
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My gender isn’t intended to be a radical political act, it isn’t intended to be anything, it just is
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Is there such things as a gender queer femme? I have trouble reconciling the fact that I identify as gender queer BUT I wear dresses and makeup often ( I am female bodied). Thoughts. Hope this gets rid of your boredom!asked by Anonymous
answer:
First and foremost, if someone can add to this response or correct me, I’d really appreciate it. I’m not genderqueer so I don’t feel 100% comfortable answering with miseducation and misinformation!*
YES, I believe there is such a thing as GENDERQUEER FEMME. Gender as a whole is very complex. And because it is complex, it is best figured out with our own introspection and with the support of fellow transfolk. It can become confusing, as i have found myself with inner conflicts in the past. With gender, we deal with:
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what we are assigned at birth,
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what we as individuals identify ourselves as,
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and what others perceive us to be.
And all of those things may not align, making everything much more complicated and scary to figure out.
What i understand about genderqueer from friends and youth i worked with is that GQ is a gender identity that does not coincide with the gender/sex-binary(man/male-woman/female) and is not gender-normative (abiding with pre-prescribed lifestyle norms based on what sex/gender someone is assigned at birth). GQ folk may identify as both man and woman, neither man nor woman, a third/separate gender of man and woman. GQ, in some circumstances, may also end up blurring the lines between gender identity and the orientation of ones sexuality. Some GQ folks strongly identify as transgender because transitioning socially, hormonally, surgically, and/or legally is essential to the persons well being. I say well being because when one is not comfortable in ones own body, that conflict can be the root of a persons unhappiness.
Being of the transgender umbrella does not necessarily mean that one has to transition, but for the survival of many, it is a necessity to transition. It has become a trend that many people appropriate identities, including gender identities. We must be conscious between the differences of admiration and identifying with something. I hope I was helpful.
Devin
P.S. A message from a fellow tumblr-blogger: There is most definitely such thing as a female assigned at birth genderqueer femme, I know lots of people that identify that way! There is nothing inherently female about dresses, make-up, heels, or femininity.
A message from another blogger: oh, hai! I was parusing your blog and thought i’d offer some help with your recent anon ask about faab genderqueer femmes. I’m a co-admin for Fuck Yeah, Trans* Femmes, and we get a lot of faab genderqueer/nonbinary femme submissions. Does that help?
Thanks for your help: zerofailure: , criploveandneutronstars and cloveflowers
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You can support (Un)heard by giving a dollar! Sure, you can do other things with that dollar, but would they be as meaningful?
Our goal is $1,500 by June 2, the funds will go to travel and equipment expenses! Please support trans* artists! If we don’t tell our stories, who will?
Best,
Asher and B!
*please reblog if you can’t give!
Please donate and reblog. This has the potential to be an awesome (and deeply needed) project.
I think this is an awesome project and needs to be supported.
(Source: transunheard)