Comments on: “Trans Panic” Defense Devalues Another Woman’s Life

By: Simple_Bliss

Simple_Bliss — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 03:38:14 +0000

I have a friend who’s transgendered (there’s some ambiguity, since he refers to himself as a ‘he’ but IDs a female) and that statistic? That scares me.
This needs to be rectified. Now.

By: Transgender Day of Remembrance 2008 : The Curvature

Transgender Day of Remembrance 2008 : The Curvature — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:52:34 +0000

[...] being murdered in their lifetimes. Even those who dispute the number seem to want to place it at 10 times the murder rate of every one else. Whichever number is correct, or if the truth is somewhere in the middle, it’s high. We [...]

By: Cara

Cara — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:35:32 +0000

Bound Not Gagged.

By: SunlessNick

SunlessNick — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:31:46 +0000

The only one I can think of off the top of my head is Renegade Evolution, who among other things blogs about perceptions of sex workers from inside and outside the wider feminist community.

By: Megan

Megan — Tue, 16 Sep 2008 09:10:46 +0000

Does anyone know of any good sex worker blogs? I’m sure they are out there, I just don’t know how to search efficiently without wading through whatever crap comes up with google.

I am looking for blogs written by sex workers of all backgrounds about their experiences because I feel like what little I read about sex workers is either calling out media’s gross dismissals of “slain hookers” or other bloggers waxing on about sex work without actually having experienced it.

By: Shannon

Shannon — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:37:37 +0000

Oh dear lord – this is disgusting. The fact that anyone can compare the “horror” of a man discovering a prostitute has a penis to the true horror of being murdered is just…I can’t think of a word other than disgusting that describes it as well. Bleh.

By: Lisa Harney

Lisa Harney — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:59:17 +0000

I know that I say this all of the time but when are we going to come to a time when we can collectively decide that all bodies matter?

Not soon enough. :(

By: Lisa Harney

Lisa Harney — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 05:43:23 +0000

Elizabeth Mcclung has described several incidents that have occurred in Vancouver and Victoria Island in British Columbia that haven’t made the news, including a serial killer a few years ago who killed several trans women sex workers.

I think there’s a lot of murders that don’t get reported for whatever reason. Some get into the news, some don’t. I’d love to have access to the statistics for actual murders, the arrest rate, the conviction rate, and how many of those murderers who go free kill again.

By: Renee

Renee — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:53:53 +0000

transgender individuals in America have up to a 1 in 12 chance of being murdered.* One in twelve. Let that sink in.

Oh my God. That hit me like a ton of bricks. I know that there is some debate as how accurate that particular statistic is however with the violence that is directed at transwomen I believe it may possibly be not that far from accurate. It is simply heartbreaking. I wonder how many murders, rapes and assaults go unreported and uninvestigated. I know that I say this all of the time but when are we going to come to a time when we can collectively decide that all bodies matter?

By: Cara

Cara — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 11:00:14 +0000

Short for cisgender or cissexual. The most simplistic definition is “non-transgender.” Here are a couple better ones:

Cisgender: A gender identity formed by a match between your biological sex and your subconscious sex. May also be used as a synonym for non-transgender (‘trans’ means across; ‘cis’ means on the same side).

Cissexual: “[…] people who are not transsexual and who have only ever experienced their subconscious and physical sexes as being aligned” (Julia Serano)