1/27/14

Who murdered Trans woman Kyra Cordova?


PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) - December 1, 2012 -- Dawn Maher says her daughter, Kyra Cordova, was trying to make a difference in her community.

Being both transgender and biracial, Krya - who also went by Krya Kruz - did not want other young people to suffer the same indignities she had.

"Racism, discrimination, not being able to get a job, a whole gamut of things," Dawn said.

Source Crime Commission.org Philadephia:

$25,000 Reward

For information leading to the arrest and conviction of the individual(s) responsible for the murder of Kyra Kruz Cordova

On Monday, September 3, 2012 at approximately 5:00 am, 15th District police responded to a call in the 1100 block of Adams Avenue. Upon arrival, they discovered the body of Kyra Cordova in a wooded area off of Adams Avenue with a fatal gun shot wound.

The Citizens Crime Commission is administering a $5,000 reward posted by the Justice4Kyra Coalition and the City of Philadelphia is posting up to a $20,000 reward for any information that would lead to individual(s) responsible for Kyra's murder.



Anyone with information is urged to call the Citizens Crime Commission at 215-546-TIPS (8477) H/T "Unsolved Transgender Murders" facebook



Kuwait police arrest of yet another transgender woman makes seven in two weeks

Alwatan.kuwait reports that Kuwait police are continuing there persecution of transgender citizens. Last week an unnamed transgender woman who had been frequenting a Kuwait city hair salon was arrested after another patron reported her to the police.

The Huffington Post is reporting that there were six other transgender woman arrested the previous week and charged with "imitating the opposite sex".

Transgender people in Kuwait are tortured and sexually abused by police according to a 2012 Human Rights Watch (HRW)report "They hunt us down for fun" as reported by ahram.org.

Source: alwatan.kuwait [google translate] what seems to be a celebratory post:

"Wrote Abdullah joyful: referred Men Investigation fovea citizen Michbha women to the public prosecution yesterday after it revealed a citizen of the salon lady area around a fully decorated and found that the frequency on the saloon times and did not recognize him one. in details: Submit salon owner feminine area around a complaint to the police station fovea said it that working in the salon told him that there Michbh women inside the salon that I have met one of the customers, and it gave the Director of Investigation Hawally Colonel Abdulrahman neighing instructed the men Detectives fovea to adjust the perpetrator and take legal action against him and formed a task force for this purpose led submitted Ammar Al-Muhanna and Lt. Hamad Al-Kandari and headed accompanied salon owner to adjust the accused and when they enter the salon were surprised by the full Onotth b «Mickey August», hair and at the request of demonstrable sure as a man and not a girl, and it was referred to the competent authority. security source said: it shows in the investigations that imitating frequency at the salon several times not detected by one and that He used to come and work Milesmh of things cosmetic, adding that operating the saloon said that he accepted and their customers more than once as a girl. , and it was a necessary right and recording «cocktail» of the cases against him, including indecent assault and entering a place dedicated to women and is similar to other sex and referred to the prosecution General to take legal action against him."


1/26/14

Top Cop transitions to Laura in the most deadly of countries for transgender people, Brazil

Deputy General Delegate of the Civil Police, Daniel Felipe Diniz Adorni told Globo.com To colleagues, Laura de Costa Teixeira is brave. "We see it as a personal act, hard to do, but we understand as courage. For us, the problem is corrupt, missing police. The case of Laura's no problem, "said Adorni.
He points out that her work has always been valued within the force and that it should not change. "From now on, Laura will continue with the same character of service. Her functional life remains the same, so we did not change anything."

The Trans respect update shows reports of murdered trans people in 26 countries in the last 12 months, with the majority from Brazil (95), Mexico (40), the USA (16), and Venezuela (15), followed by Honduras (12), Colombia (12), and El Salvador (5). While Brazil, Mexico, and the USA have the highest absolute numbers, the relative numbers show even more worrisome results for some countries with smaller population sizes. Honduras, for instance, has a rate of 1.5 reported trans killings per million inhabitants, for El Salvador the rate is 0.71, while for Brazil the rate is 0.49, for Mexico the rate is 0.36, and for the USA the rate is 0.05. In Asia most reported cases have been found in India (8), and in Europe in Turkey (5) and Italy (5).


Why is New Mexico State University using the Trans bathroom meme to advocate for single occupancy restrooms?

Is New Mexico State University Las Cruces student's push for single occupancy rest rooms for transgender people inadvertently using the transpanic meme?

The cover picture the article features two people, of opposite genders, in a public restroom with the female looking surprised maybe terrified, and the male looking agast but well, interested.

The second picture, posted left, plays right into the foes of trans equality suggesting that transgender equality means wild orgies as sexualy active young people of opposite genders become intermixed in the restroom.

While this picture is the best argument for single occupancy restrooms, it's the worst image for those seeking real tran safety. It wouldn't have been surprising to see it on the website of the foes of the California student fairness act, but on the New Mexico University student newspaper?

The picture insinuates that current University transgender students who use the correct restroom according to their gender expression are in fact, presenting as the opposite gender. That image is very harmful to your students, no matter how much fun it was for the cis people pictured.

Further more, it's not 'gender neutral' its single occupancy that the University is pressing for.

Denying transgender people equal access to public accommodations at any level, be it grade school, university or the workplace only serves to other them. This leads to further ostracization and stress as the idea that they are different is pointy made evident, daily not just to them but to all those around them as well.

Single occupancy rest rooms are not an answer. Mutually shared spaces by cisgender and transgender alike builds bonds of social confidence and friendship.

NMS has a trans inclusive policy since 2006 they should take the bold step in including public accommodations.






Why is looking terrified the objective?

1/25/14

Transgender woman arrested for shooting and killing a man on a light rail train

In a breaking story, a woman identified by the Sacbee as transgender has been booked by Sacramento police on suspicion of murder.

The video of the shooting which occurred Thursday night has no sound but somehow the police have already determined the shooting was not in retaliation to hate speech.

Source SacBee:
Sacramento police detectives booked 32-year-old Lynnsey Evakarla Braun into the county jail on suspicion of murder.

She is accused of opening fire on a man in his 50s inside an outbound Gold Line train as it came into the Archives Plaza station at 11th and O streets.

The man, who suffered gunshot wounds, exited the train before falling to the sidewalk, according to Regional Transit officials. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

Braun is being held in segregation in a male jail reportedly because of her transgender status.

Read the full story here.



Note: planetransgender does not normally use just one source for stories such as this, especially since the trans woman is not self identifying, but will in this instance as Sacbee is a historically a very reliable source.


Former SC GOP head who wants the internment of transgender people call's Wendy Davis a "Whore"

Tod Kincannon, the former head of the SC GOP said in October 2013 that his final solution for transgender people would be a Nazi internment camp has gone on the war path again. This time he's attacking the hope of Texas, Wendy Davis calling her and anyone else who would defend her a "Whore" on Twitter.

Why would Kincannon call Davis a whore? Apparently, Davis's second husband had enough money to help pay for Wendy's college education.

I hope this serves a reminder to everyone, myself included how important the upcoming elections are.

Via Americans against the TEA Party

Tea Party Republican spews vile, sexist Twitter attacks at Wendy Davis (via Raw Story )
Former head of the South Carolina Republican Party, Tea Party activist Todd Kincannon has unleashed a vile parade of hateful, sexist insults aimed at Texas Democratic state Sen. Wendy Davis. According to Americans Against the Tea Party, the attacks…