I can't imagine losing a family member in such a horrendous and senseless matter, that's a pain that hits you to the core.

Yes, let's all put on our critical thinking caps and try to come up with an explanation as to why a trending news story about a murdered trans woman has any business on a LGBT blog.

This isn't Jezebel, this is ROYGBIV the LGBT blog. note the "T" in the LGBT which stands for Trans.

Wow...there are not enough words to describe how awful this is. R.I.P. Yazmin. This is so disgusting.

I hope this doesn't come across as minimizing what happened or as denying that transgender people are very frequently the target of hate crimes, because that is not what I mean to do. But I can also kind of see where the officer is coming from. I have cadaver dogs and even though I'm a civilian handler, we're called…

hugeness isn't always vertical and yes 17 years old is a kid.

I wouldnt agree. Women are still on the receiving end of advances, regardless of weight. They'll have their fair share of desperate low-quality losers chasing after them, which is better than nothing, which is the attention fat guys get.

This stereotype is so not true. At all. In dating, women value a man by his face, first and foremost. "Great sense of humor lol" means nothing in attraction.

Um... no? That's not really connected to my point, but I agree, generally speaking.

There are 4 heads in that huddle. Woody Harrelson, too? Maybe?

That is why she said "significantly overweight". Slightly overweight men are definitely not disadvantaged, whereas slightly overweight women are.

Those are excellent reasons. There is a pretty rapidly increasing number of positive trans role models, male and female and probably non-conforming too. I'm just waiting for a trans person to turn up in F1 and really shake it up!

I've contributed some stuff to Jalopnik either through OppositeLock or shared from my own subblog ROYGBIV over at Jezebel. I'm a trans woman, and I'm into cars, and neither of these things are remotely mutually exclusive. And flying the flag is part of what I do for kids like Chase (I'm also a JHS teacher). I had no…

you keep implying this kid is unidentifiable by his ID. open your eyes, they're being blinded by your prejudice. your logic is full of shit.

If you're gonna pull that idiot card, then you also need to claim that women can't have their picture taken unless they take off their make-up.

I'm still not seeing how it makes a difference. If a chick can cake her face in a shitload of makeup and still take a picture, why can't a guy? Gender has nothing to do with whether or not makeup makes a person recognizable; what actually matters is that the picture is an accurate representation of their everyday…

Why the fuck not?

Real men don't give a shit if other dudes want to wear make up. Who cares.

If girls can wear make up in their driver's license pictures, then so should this kid.