119 times. yet cis people won’t share a bathroom with a transgender person bcs they think they’re a threat..
Her name was Dee Whigham. Rest in peace.
”The violence against our community of transgender women seems to be really just over the top, and angry and horrible. Usually a transgender woman is not just punched, or beaten up, or even just murdered with a gunshot. There are transgender women who are shot with machine guns until they’re just pieces of meat, until they are unrecognizable. There are women who are stabbed 30, 40, 50 times! Then set on fire. If you can just imagine physically the time it would take to stab someone 40 times…” -
Calpernia Addams
This is so sad and completely heartbreaking. Her family put her in the casket with her hair cut off and in a suit, and on her online obituary they refered to her by the name that was given to her as a child not by her actual name also they used “he/his” pronouns while refering to her life.. They erased her identity!
This is a cause that concerns all of us and it’s really sad how little we care honestly it starts from showing at least the slightest bit of fucking interest or concern. No single community should be getting murdered at this rate, period, let alone without anyone even batting an eyelid.
Dan Savage has extremely strong words for the parents and therapists of Leelah Alcorn, the trans teen who died by suicide after leaving a note on Tumblr.
“The suicide of Leelah Alcorn this week actually made headlines – something, sadly, that the mainstream news media too frequently ignores. Alcorn is the transgender teen who committed suicide by walking in front of a truck early Sunday morning. On her Tumblr page, she had scheduled a suicide note to post, which it did when she was no longer alive to unschedule – or postpone – it.
Alcorn also scheduled an apology post, which was published sometime after her suicide note. It was an apology to some, but not to her parents, who apparently had caused her great misery.
"Mom and Dad: Fuck you. You can’t just control other people like that. That’s messed up,” were her final words to her parents in the apology note.
Dan Savage on Twitter went on a bit of a rant, posting tweets saying Leelah’s parents should be prosecuted for her death.”
Trans Lifeline opened up in November to provide a resource for transgender people with suicidal thoughts. In the US, the organization can be reached by phone at 877-565-8860.
So, last night, I was getting ready to go out with my boyfriend to a dance at my school (which was cancelled due to lack of ticket sales) and, I had a nice black vest and a nice white shirt, and my uncle had just came home the other day from the mine (my uncle is homophobic and he has abused me many times throughout my child hood) and when I had came out of my room to show my memere how nice I looked, my uncle was in the room that i thought my grandma/memere would be in (she was downstairs doing laundry), and he asked me why I wasnt wearing a dress. my memere and dad both know that I am transgendered and they respect that, however, my uncle does not, and he did not know. so I decided to sit down and tell him the truth. he listened carefully and quietlly through all of it, but at the end of my explanation he had said, “I didn’t raise you to be fucked up.” I agreed, I am a huge mess, I have been for years, but my sexuality and gender identity is not a fuck up, so I argued with him. he got to a point where, after so many months of piece, he slapped me. and threw me to the ground and kicked me in the stomach, of course I had puked, and it hurt, a lot. he grabbed me by the shirt and asked me, “are you a girl”, I said no, my sex is female, but my gender is male..and he dragged me to his room. he once had a big dog, and he made that dog wear an eletrical dog collar, and weve always kept it in his room, because we dont need it (my uncle killed the dog), he threw me onto the bed and said,” ill ask you one more time, are you a girl” I said no. held grabbed my wrist, and held onto it tightly, I have a bruise from how tight he was grabbing it, and he pulled out the dog collar, threw me back onto the bed, sat on me, and put the collar on me… then he began yelling, are you a girl, you are a girl, are you a girl, you are a girl, and my response of course was no, no, no, I am male, I am male. whenever I said that, he would shock me, and it was /hell/. I was screaming, which only caused the shocks to get worse and worse, and then he said, “do you want to find out how faggots have sex!?” of course I already know this, but still I said no no no no stop stop stop. my memere had finally heard me and came rushing to the bedroom, and tried to make my uncle stop, but he pushed her down, and thanked god she was okay.. since shes very fragile and all. she then ran back to the stairs to call up my dad, and oh boy did he run. he ran up stairs and shoved my uncle away from me and started fighting with him, yelling, punching, kicking, and such so on. my memere got the collar off of me and brought me into her room, and after my dad and uncle were done fighting, my uncle had grabbed the things he needed and left, shouting a few insults at us. we called the police today, but they cant find him. we dont have money for a lawyer, all we have is a counsellor, im not going to ask for money, all I ask for is support. I dont know what this will do, but please spread this around, this has affected me and family members greatly. I was taken to a hospital today to check if there was any damage on my insides that we dont know of and thankfully there was no damage, just scarring, emotionally and physically. i had a horrifying nightmare relating to this as well. If you have abused somebody, raped somebody, insulted somebody, in any way possible, I hope this can somehow change your way of heart, and realize how much this can horrify a person, and ruin their lives. it made my life 97x worse than it already is.
If you don’t reblog this that’s okay, but I hate you and you are wrong
When random strangers on the internet are more accepting of your daughter’s pronouns and her name then you fucked up. When news articles are more respectful of her pronouns and her name, you fucked up. When you try to claim she was just ‘on a walk’ after she posted a scuicide note online, you fucked up.
frankly until people who are named in childrens’ suicide notes as being reasons for their wanting to end their own lives are charged with child neglect or familial abuse or SOMETHING i will not rest. leelah alcorn was 17, she was a teenager and still legally a child. she was still in high school. her own parents drove her to suicide and even after her death continue to pretend that leelah was a boy and that she didn’t commit suicide. her mother’s facebook post discusses the suicide like it was an accident — “out for an early morning walk”, “hit by a truck.” leelah was out several miles from her parents’ house walking along a busy expressway at TWO O’CLOCK IN THE MORNING. she wrote a suicide note and scheduled it to be posted if she didn’t return.
she was driven to suicide. her parents killed her.
