A transgender woman in Idaho died suddenly at work at age 32. Her friends say when they went to her funeral, she was in an open casket — hair cut short, dressed in a suit, presented as a man.
“No mention of the woman she knew she was and had lived as for several years. Just erosion of her identity and an old photograph of how the father perceived her to be,” said Meghan Stabler, a board member of Human Rights Campaign and member of HRC’s National Business Council.
“She had done what she needed to do legally to be seen as her authentic self. Her father erased her identity either though ignorance or arrogance,” Stabler said.
violence is done to us even in death