During a recent edition of MSNBC Live with Kendis Gibson, a good friend of mine and a wonderful transgender activist Monica Roberts, who runs the GLAAD Media Award-winning blog Transgriot, was interviewed about how transphobic rhetoric leads to violence against community.
It goes without saying that she did a wonderful job. And it was definitely a refreshing thing to see a transgender American invited on a news program. Particularly in light of how the Fox News network and the rest of the right-wing media will practically bend over backwards to exclude the trans community in debates, while giving transphobic people and groups a wide berth to spew their lies.
Hat tip to Media Matters.
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This brings to mind an incident a few years ago in Washington DC. A trans woman was horribly injured in a car crash. Paramedics arrived and began to work on her, but stopped when they discovered that she was trans. Onlookers repeatedly yelled at the paramedics to tend to her but they refused to do much of anything and the injured woman died.
I can not imagine being such a callous, hateful human being. She probably could have been saved. She didn’t stop being a person because she stopped being a man.
I remember that. Her name was Tyra Hunter. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyra_Hunter
Yes - that's her! Thank you!
She could have survived, if she had been treated. So sad and such a waste. She was only 25 years old.
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