We live in a world where violence
against trans people and especially
black trans women is commonplace the
American Medical Association has labeled
killings of trans women of color an
epidemic there is so much violence
happening to black trans women that we
actually can't even measure it last year
the Human Rights Campaign tracked at
least 26 deaths due to fatal violence
the majority of victims were black
transgender women
experts say as shocking as the numbers
are the number of victims could be even
higher so often they will remain silent
and the data we have is based on the
folks who have reported we don't know
about the folks who suffer in silence
people are suffering in silence because
they're afraid for their safety and one
reason black trans people may not report
violence is that going to the police
could endanger them even more one survey
of black trans people found that more
than a third of respondents who
interacted with police reported
harassment 15% reported physical assault
and 7% reported sexual assault those
statistics make me want to curl into a
ball and scream into my my pillow
it's not a my pillow it's my pillow that
I made of the my pillow guy hate his
politics
I love that his face reminds me of my
dad one state that is particularly cruel
when it comes to trans people is Texas
the Human Rights Campaign says 77
percent of trans people here in Texas do
not have any identification that
reflects their preferred name or
pronouns Traci was a highly energetic
life on the point but on July 30th of
this year at 3 in the morning police
found the 22 year olds body
investigators say Tracy's boyfriend 25
year old Joshua bushwa stabbed her
multiple times Tracy's body sat in the
morgue for 10 days before HPD finally
reached out to the LGBT community for
help identifying her far too often
there's no justice when it comes to the
murder of black trans women and these
senseless crimes affect the victims
entire communities I've been frightened
but not like this before
last month Dupri's close friend Chyna
Gibson and Sierra McElveen were murdered
within days of each other a week earlier
jquery's
Holland was killed in another Louisiana
town all of the victims trans women of
color what scares me the most is that
people will feel like they can get away
with these things and nothing would be
done about it how many more people have
to be killed before something that's
done about it the correct answer is zero
and following the recent murders of Ryan
Milton and Dominique Remy fells finally
more people are beginning to acknowledge
that this month the Brooklyn Liberation
march brought together 15,000 protestors
to stand up against police brutality and
violence against black trans people
black trans lives are especially
important because we are we exist and we
are continually treated as if we don't
exist
black trans people are murdered at
higher rates than any other community we
are pushed out of jobs out of housing
out of opportunities out of resources
and we deserve to be marched for black
trans women need and deserve our
attention and we have to fight for them
if there's one thing we need to remember
it's that black trans lives matter and
if there's - it's that the my pillow guy
makes a great pillow nothing my pillow
my pillow of the my pillow guy if you
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