Looks like a pump, feels like a wingtip.
REPORT: Intersection Of Transgender And Asian Identities Compounds Inequities
This week, the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, National Center for Transgender Equality, and National Queer Asian Pacific Islander Alliance released a new report analyzing the experience of people who are both transgender and have an Asian/Pacific Islander (API) ethnicity. Using data from the Injustice At Every Turn study of transgender Americans, the study examined the compounding inequities specifically for Asian Americans and uncovers some disconcerting results:
- Of all trans people, the API faces the highest rates of extreme poverty (18 percent), which is six times the general API population (3 percent) and over four time the general U.S. population rate (4 percent).
- HIV devastates this community, with nearly 5 percent reporting they are HIV-positive (compared to 2.64 percent of trans people, .01 percent of API people, and .6 percent of the U.S. population) and an additional 10. 48 percent report not knowing their status.
- Among API trans people, 56 percent have attempted suicide in response to the discrimination they’ve experienced.
- Though individuals with accepting families faced lower rates of discrimination, only 44 percent reported experiencing significant acceptance.
The impact of family acceptance on transgender Asian Americans.
The report also provides data about discrimination in housing and homelessness, the workplace, and healthcare. It can be read in numerous languages. Previous analyses have been released looking at the experiences of black and Latino transgender Americans.
A story on some trans experiences in China
Youths are leading the shift toward tolerance of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual community. Xu Jingxi in Guangzhou and Cheng Anqi in Beijing report.
Xu Hui’s parents locked him in a mill, hired an exorcist and psychologists, and forced him to undergo acupuncture that accidentally pierced his lung, in order to “cure” his feminine behavior. The boy enjoyed playing with his sister’s Barbie dolls and wore bras stuffed with tissue. “I increasingly felt like a girl but didn’t think too much about it,” says the 22-year-old, who now considers herself a woman.
This sort of thing gives me so much life.
(not because Xu Hui had this terrible experience or the misgendering but because it is good to read non-white trans experiences.)
janet mock on cece mcdonald & paige clay, "worthy" victims, &media narratives re: trans* ppl
fighting back tears as i read it.
Trans people of color on a popular, prime time TV show? AND it actually shows how the gays aren’t any more down with us then anyone else? Wow world what’s next, will they actually FREE CECE?!
Part of me really wants to ask why they called in Kate Bornstein and not, say, Monica Roberts, but I already know the answer, and it’s sinking in the pit of my gut. Fuckin’ A. (vid is @ links; didn’t show up in the reblog for some reason)
So, this is a discussion that happened on MSNBC where they’re talking about transgender identity in America. It’s a pretty solid discussion, but around ten minutes in, they discuss CeCe’s case. Kate Bornstein talks about it, and inaccurately.
Here is a brief transcription of the that portion of the interview:
Melissa Harris-Perry(newscaster): Now Kate, I actually wanted to talk to you a little bit about a different story around violence which is the CeCe McDonald story, because we’ve been talking here on the show about Jenna Talackova and Miss Universe but the CeCe Mcdonald story also makes me feel an awful lot like the Trayvon Martin story. Can you tell me a little bit more about the CeCe McDonald story?
Kate: Well, uh, yeah. She was beaten savagely by a group of folks and she fought back. And ended up in self defense killing one of her attackers. She was charged with second degree murder, put in the slammer, and that’s that. there’s no hope of reopening the case. and there’s a large petition drive to free CeCe.
MHP: …there’s this idea that she was victimized by hate crimes. in fighting back she ended up being the one charged. so she stood her ground.
KB: yes she did.
I would like to clarify something here:
CeCe was brutally attacked by white people who were using racist and transphobic slurs against her and her friends. She was attacked. There is no equal ground here. She did not fight back. She was not an aggressor in any way. In the attack, one of the attackers was stabbed, and tragically, passed away. There is no clear evidence as to how it happened, but CeCe was the person arrested.
Please inform yourselves.
Please go here: http://supportcece.wordpress.com/ for information and ways to support.
The fact is that transgender people—in particular, transgender people of color—have simply not experienced the same strides forward as their lesbian, gay and bisexual brothers and sisters. A landmark new report, ‘Injustice at Every Turn,’ presents undeniable proof. This report, released on Friday, is based on a comprehensive survey of over 6,000 transgender people and the findings are too shocking to ignore, especially when it comes to African-American transgender people.
Our transgender brothers and sisters are far more likely to lack proper medical care, to be unemployed, to live in extreme poverty, and to be HIV-positive—and that’s when compared to their white transgender counterparts, not just the general population. The survey’s respondents were four times more likely than the general population to live in extreme poverty. One in five reported having been refused a home or apartment, another one in five report having been refused health care. More than one in five, 22 percent, reported having been harassed by law enforcement, and nearly half reported fear of seeking assistance from police. African American respondents reported all of this in even higher numbers.
”Mandy Carter, Still No Freedom Rainbow for Transgender People of Color (COLORLINES)
If you haven’t already, I recommend taking a look at that report. The race statistics are sobering, and too important to ignore.
(via kiriamaya)
If you ever doubted that racial issues are trans issues, here’s proof. If this isn’t enough, nothing ever will be.
(via polerin)
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Marsha P. Johnson (1944-1992) at a Gay Liberation Front meeting, ca. 1970. Johnson was “a revolutionary trans activist, Stonewall instigator, Andy Warhol model, drag queen, prostitute, and Saint, as well as a downtown NYC fixture from the 1960’s through her too-soon demise in 1992. Johnson persevered through a life embodied by her middle initial P, which stood for ‘Pay It No Mind.’” She is now the subject of a documentary that takes this phrase as its title.
Marsha P. Johnson, who was a transgender[ ] activist present at the Stonewall riots, was also a founding member of an organization that could only have been started in the 1970s - S.T.A.R. - Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries…Marsha was about as sweet as they come, a fixture on the mean streets who was always ready with a smile…I wanted to share this forgotten gem of a poem [composed by Jimmy Centola, formerly of the Hot Peaches theater troupe] that tells the history of Stonewall and of what happened to the gay movement by the late 70s in Marsha’s voice.
Can you spare any change for a dying queen dar-ling?I mean I am dying.I know you don’t believe me.But I know what I’m talking about.Yes I do.Us queens know what we’re talking about because we’re for liberation, yes we are.Look at the Stonewall.When I first came to New Yorkall pressed and cleanin a white shirt and tiewhat my mother bought meI heard about the Stonewallso I thought I’d go over andcheck it outand LORD!Men are dancing with menand one more gorgeous than anotherand way in the back were my sisters, honeyturning it out in gold lame and wigs for days…
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Marsha P. Johnson (1944-1992) at a Gay Liberation Front meeting, ca. 1970. Johnson was “a revolutionary trans activist, Stonewall instigator, Andy Warhol model, drag queen, prostitute, and Saint, as well as a downtown NYC fixture from the 1960’s through her too-soon demise in 1992. Johnson persevered through a life embodied by her middle initial P, which stood for ‘Pay It No Mind.’” She is now the subject of a documentary that takes this phrase as its title.
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