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For incarcerated trans women: ‘Injustice at every turn’
By Princess Harmony posted on April 14, 2021
According to the 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey, one in six transgender people have been imprisoned. For Black transgender people the ratio is one in two. The prison system is no place for anyone to be, but for a trans person the prison system is especially threatening. A study done in the California prison system found trans people are 13 times more likely to be sexually assaulted than other incarcerated people.
Imprisoned in Georgia, Ashley Diamond was raped 14 times by both sexually violent inmates and prison staff. This was after a guard talked about her gender identity using slurs like “freak” and “it.” With the aid of the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Center, Diamond is suing the Georgia Department of Corrections for placing her in a men’s facility.
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The Educating Children of Color Summit, an annual conference for students, parents and educators that focuses on best practices and equity and provides scholarship opportunities to students, will be held online this year due to COVID-19. Described by Harrison School District 2 Superintendent Wendy Birhanzel as âone of the best professional developments staff can have around equity,â the summit brings a host of nationally recognized speakers to address participants on topics such as implicit bias and microaggressions, racial justice and systemic racism. Willy Wilkinson, a California-based public health consultant and the author of
Born on the Edge of Race and Gender: A Voice for Cultural Competency, will present a session on creating LGBTQ-affirming schools in the COVID era.Â
that s changing. laverne cox hasn t been shy about using her tinseltown platform to educate the public on issues as she did with katie couric last year. the preoccupation with transition with surgery objectifies trans people and we don t get to deal with the real lived experiences, the reality of trans peoples lives is that so often we re targets of violence. employment rate is twice the national average if you re trans person of color, four times more. if we focus on transition, we don t get to talk about those things. here s what the 2011 national transgender discrimination survey found in time. 80% were harassed at school. 90% were harassed nearly 20% said they were denied