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Emmett Brock: A Shocking Case of Anti-Trans Violence in Los Angeles

3Jan

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Emmett Brock: A Shocking Case of Anti-Trans Violence in Los Angeles

8 police officers dismissed after attack to a Trans Man in Los Angeles In a story that has left many of us gobsmacked, Emmett Brock, a 23-year-old transgender teacher from Los Angeles, has bravely spoken out after being viciously attacked by a rideshare driver. The incident, which highlights the ongoing epidemic of anti-trans violence, is a sobering reminder that despite progress in LGBTQ+ rights, the world can still be an unsafe place for trans individuals. The Attack Brock was allegedly attacked by Joseph Benza III, a rideshare driver, after a verbal disagreement escalated. The driver reportedly hurled a slew of transphobic slurs before launching a physical assault that left Brock shaken and injured. The incident, which occurred in November 2022, has only recently come to light after ...

Trans Woman in China Makes History by Winning Landmark Conversion Therapy Case

23Nov

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Trans Woman in China Makes History by Winning Landmark Conversion Therapy Case

Trans Rights are Humans Rights! You agree, hun? In a groundbreaking victory for LGBTQ+ rights, Ling’er, a 28-year-old trans woman from Hebei province, has become the first trans person in China to successfully challenge the barbaric practice of conversion therapy. After being subjected to electroshock treatment without her consent, Ling’er took a stand and won a historic case against the hospital responsible, securing 60,000 yuan (almost €8,000) in compensation. A Harrowing Ordeal Ling’er’s story is one of resilience and courage. A performance artist saving up for gender reassignment surgery, she had come out to her family in 2022. However, her parents, rejecting her identity, committed her to a psychiatric hospital. Diagnosed with the archaic and harmful label of “discordant sexual ori...

Trans woman sent to men’s prison: a story of abuses and terrifying rapes

31Jul

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Trans woman sent to men’s prison: a story of abuses and terrifying rapes

A trans woman from Virginia lived one of the most horrible experiences a trans person could live. As the WYDaily reports, Tykira Spruill’s nightmare began back in 2006 at St Bride’s Correctional Facility in Chesapeake, Virginia, after she was arrested for stealing. At that time she had recently started medically transitioning with hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and silicone injections in her face, but when she arrived she was stripped of any gender-affirming clothing and placed in a men’s area. But unfortunately it did not stop there, as she later got charged with “identity fraud charges” and when she was taken to prison the story repeated. She was still having silicone injections before she was incarcerated, and when she was taken the doctor on duty for an infection - always in the m...

Covid-19 restrictions in Panama are getting worse especially for Trans people.

6Apr

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Covid-19 restrictions in Panama are getting worse especially for Trans people.

Crazy rules and where to find them. On 1st April Panama implemented new rules for the self-isolations due to Covid-19 pandemic: men and women are allowed to go out of their houses for a max of 2 continuous hours per day on specific and alternate days. To be sure all citizens respect these restrictions, police are checking the gender on the ID cards, this is seriously effecting trans people (pre-surgery) around the country. In Panama, trans people can only change their gender on their ID Documents if they can prove they have had gender-confirmation surgery. According to Human Rights Watch, on the first day of these new gendered-social-distancing and isolation rules, Bárbara Delgado a trans woman who still hasn’t completed her surgeries for gender-confirmation, was stopped by police o...