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"A camel is a horse designed by committee."

Yeah I agree . He deflects and seems to strongly imply that even if she was killed for being trans that's not a real hate crime cause

" If you really think about it, a hate crime is killing someone for a specific reason, being black, Hispanic, gay."

The juxtaposition of "We have no indication at this time to say this…

EXACTLY. Murder against women, when there is a deep sense of entitlement to women, to women's bodies, to react violently to women, that is a hate crime. As far as I am concerned, even if not legally recognised.

You are correct, they were men. Actually every case I've been involved with has had a male murderer, but it is a small sample size.

This is literally the second LGBT murder today that I've read about that don't qualify as a hate crime for the police. The other was over on Autostraddle about he young lesbian couple that was sexually assaulted before the murderer attempted to kill them both.

The other murders you speak of sound misogyny based. I would consider those also to be hate crimes. Maybe that's not the legal definition, I don't know, I am not from Florida, but it sure as hell seems like it to me. So I would totally believe this to be standard behavior for hate crimes, where hate was a motivating…

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…

I want to, but his phrasing was incredibly tone deaf. Especially "because it was a male living as a female" is particularly painful to transgender ears. I imagine "it" here was a pronoun used for murder and not for Yazmin, but still. I cringed at that line something fierce. There is also no recognition that most…

Some of these boys were put into the general population with adult men. $40 million can't cover that.

NOPE! I never learned that in school, and was certainly not taught by a parent. Sure, that should happen, but it took until the Sex and the City episode about Charlotte's depressed vagina for me to even think about looking at myself from that angle. And when I did, I asked my roommates in a conversation a hell of a…

I really dig OITNB (and watching it with my girlfriend) because it's generally a very realistic depiction of what prison life was like (for me, at men's prisons in Florida). There are some things that are total bullshit, but many of them are very, very authentic (officers have sex with inmates? Yup. Officers…

I think this is really important, and could be very valuable information in the event of a medical emergency.

Oh really? Because there's an article on this blog

Will the media ever get that right? Probably not for a long time, no. Kids are born, we say "It's a boy!" or It's a girl!" 99.7% or more of the time that works out just fine. No one is being malicious by doing so, after all. What do you expect people to do/say when they have a baby?

Next time you are squeezing that baby out and are ripping then you tell me it's petty.

I love that one because while it is implied that you are expecting a human child, you're only expecting one.

Well, I do. After nearly dying with my first child, and being terrified that was going to happen with my second, yeah. I don't like the phrase "we're pregnant" okay?

While I agree that GW Bush is terrible and your cat is probably awesome, I am afraid to say it can't get worse and then have a Palin, Bachmann, Perry, Cruz, or Rubio get into the presidency. Because that would be worse.

Dude calm down. They weren't talking about the content of her poetry , just the structure I guess. This doesn't make them racist. Everyone is entitled to their opinion even if we disagree with it.