The digestive system (...) is not beholden to the law.

Super unpopular opinion- I really don’t like legalizing prostitution because of the commodification of (mostly) female bodies. I think if it was a small scale with women having total control over being paid for what they decide on, it would be different. But, it’s not. For the most part, when prostitution is legal,…

Imagine being told that if you worked hard just like your parents did you would get the same opportunities they would, so you go into life expecting that just by the sheer power of your effort you will succeed. Only now ten other people are vying for your job who grew up hearing the same thing.

There’s way more grounds for that than there is for he was killed for being trans.

Are there any studies comparing the murder rates of trans women and cis women? How does the high number of trans women who work in prostitution factor into this? (Not victim-blaming at all - the murder of a prostitute is no less horrendous than any other murder. But it may be relevant to whether transphobia is the…

This confused me as well.

I thought this was a hate crime (had to reread the linked articles), but it’s just a typical murder. Apparently she was shot in an altercation with someone she knew over something she allegedly stole from that person. According to her roomate she does this quite often.

Very sad for Monica’s family and friends, but I don’t understand the significance of gender identity. How many women have been murdered so far in 2016?

So why the emphasis on transpeople, if the murders aren’t related directly to their status as a transperson?

I wonder about this all the time, the US has an astronomical murder rate, despite trans women being an infinitesimally small percentage of that population they will also, on occasion, be murdered - sometimes due to their transness and sometimes due to a number of often related but sometimes unrelated variables.…

I would be quite surprised if a police report did not use a victims legal name.

I don’t understand this.

This quiet protest is proof that when it comes down to it people can’t win when they protest. If they quietly stand with a sign in front of a news conference they will be told to be more polite, if they close down intersections or refuse to obey they will be labelled thugs but if they play by the rules set by police…

Truly a man of the book. Great book, read the whole thing. Phenomenal. Lots of words—good words—true words. Two words? Fabulous book. Five stars on Amazon.

“Fuck ‘yo cake.”

She might technically be an adult, but she was also abandoned, grew up in the system, suffered from mental illness and recently reconnected with her father who got her drunk. Even if she consented, she really didn't.

Well, so much for all the people yesterday crucifying the bodega employee who didn’t the father use the phone...

So upfront I’m going to say that this sucks and human beings all deserve equal protection under the law.