Comments on: D.C. police report ‘suspicious’ death of trans woman

By: Kate LBT

Kate LBT — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 15:09:46 +0000

You need a severe beating with a clue-by-four.

By: laurelboy2

laurelboy2 — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 14:18:00 +0000

Then your point begs the question of why do this to yourselves if you realize you’re more than likely predisposed to living a life of desperation and trauma? Why not seek counseling to help yourselves with the gender with which you were born? If I thought that doing X would more than likely cause Y to happen, I’d do all I could to avoid doing X! To assert it’s the victim’s fault might be a bit harsh, but, really, who chose to gender re-identify?? Look in the mirror for the answer. ‘Nuff said.

By: Triplnikl

Triplnikl — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:39:39 +0000

This woman was left to die in front of my house. No matter her choices this was a loss of life. All life is valuable. May her soul and family find peace

By: TransMenace

TransMenace — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 05:21:21 +0000

@Laurelboy..Face the facts yourself…Trans women are mostly forced into a lifestyle of prostitution out of necessity, this because there is very little available to us, and this because of prevailing attitudes towards us by people with little understanding. No Jobs..No housing, Abuse at every turn, and here you are more or less stating that we do this to ourselves! No sir. This is because of a failing of society to recognize our humanity and equality, and statements such as yours only contribute more to the problem! Nuff said!

By: Suvi-Tuuli Allan

Suvi-Tuuli Allan — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:24:40 +0000

@laurelboy2: I have no idea how your comments got through moderation, but that’s quite a lot of transmisogynistic bull right there, and I’ve heard a lot of it. Trans women of colour are discriminated against on every level in every society that it ain’t funny. If you can’t get a ‘respectable’ job, you end having to sell your body. (Why is sexwork somehow bad anyways?) Why can’t trans women of colour find jobs? Because of people like you. You also say that there’s something psychologically wrong with trans women. Well, if some of us have psychological problems, so f’ing what? That is none of your problem. Most of our problems are because of people like you. Piss off, dude!

Why can’t trans women walk on the streets at night without getting attacked? We have the same bloody right to safety and privacy as any cis male.

By: Suvi-Tuuli Allan

Suvi-Tuuli Allan — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 03:16:36 +0000

Y’all speak of anti-LGBT hate as if it means something. LGBT is not a thing. There is no such community. There are just the cis gays and lesbians who exploit trans women for their political gains (Dan Savage, Barney Frank, et al). Those who are the most targeted for rape, torture, and murder, in this so-called ‘community’, are trans women of colour. Get that through your heads!

By: laurelboy2

laurelboy2 — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 01:33:35 +0000

@fausto fernandez: No, murder is never justifiable. What a horrible notion. But, with one after another after another incident involving trans women at weird hours of the morning in precarious situations within the last several weeks or so, obviously something is wrong with some, if not most, of the trans women. What are they doing? What are they missing? What’s the basis for their decision-making? What do they need? It sounds to me, on an objective level, that they need to start with counseling so they don’t enter into the abysmal/precarious situations they’re finding themselves, up to and including death. You can call me a bigot, prejudiced, uneducated, whatever you and the others want, (none of which is warranted based on my comments) but the facts speak for themselves. There is something afoul in the trans community. Perhaps you and the others are too blind, embarrassed, and/or simply unwilling, to recognize the obvious. ‘Nuff said.

By: azumi-san

azumi-san — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 18:34:27 +0000

Laurelboy2 consistently is one of the 1st ppl to respond to posts regarding trans murders/attacks. The vitriol constantly spewed by him is disgusting & shows his ignorance to humanity. Obviously he has been spared the indignities of feeling subhuman by his own species, never been subjected to poverty on a scale unproportianant to most ppl around him while at the same time left feeling hopeles. He has neither shown an aptitude for looking at facts such as the victim was wearing 2 bracelets indicating she had been at 2 clubs earlier in the night nor has he appeared to educate himself on the strides the DC community is extending to reach out to the trans community by was of our mayor fumding a jobs pgrm specifically tailored to our disenfranchised & downtrodden sisters (& brothers). No, he must ALWAYS just assume they deserved whatever came to them resulting from an assumed action, making them not a victim but another statistic. Laurelboy is clearly a hatefilled bigot, that yes ought to look into getting help before such hatred manifests itself into him taking his own actions against those he wont take the time to understand on a humanistic level.

By: TammieH

TammieH — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:36:34 +0000

I blame the religious leaders and clergy who preach against the LGBT community in such a hateful way and anyone else who spreads hate…they breed hate and yet wash their hands claiming that they do not advocate violence. Never the less, blood is on their hands…But..I do not hate them…in return I offer Love, Please, if you truly believe in a God you know that preaching hate is wrong.

By: TransMenace

TransMenace — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:26:30 +0000

Wow, Laurelboy, you kind of sound prejudiced, and un-educated yourself…Whats with this He/she bullshite? she was a woman, she should be respected as such, and no huh uh…we are not all prostitutes and drug addicts… what a stereotypical view you have of us. I suggest you are the one in need of counseling!