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Beating Death Of Transgender Woman Prosecuted As Hate Crime

New York Times

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August 2, 2008

Allen R. Andrade, 31, has been charged with murder as a hate crime for beating to death an 18-year-old transgender Hispanic woman he called “it.”
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  1. Janine Bryant said,

    on August 7th, 2008 at 7:42 pm

    This just makes me sick. I am a transgendered woman and I know how hard it is—how dangerous people can be to us. I cannot empasise this enough. I have been full time as a woman for twenty-years, cut off from my family for all that time, lost jobs, been subjected to violence, even excommunicated by a Priest who was later overuled by the Bishop of the Archdiocese! The hate factor for us is enourmous in this country. We who are religious folk should be the ones to teach tolerance. and we who are transgendered must not accept violence. This poor dear had no choice. She was brutalized my a man who had the sexual psyche of an un-tiolet trained two year old. He did not have the right to subject her or anybody to any kind of violence and he deserves to spend the rest of his life, plus eighteen years in prison—absolutely. He does not belong in society. We trans people worry a great deal about being “made” or “detected”—it is too bad that violent and dangerous people are not detectable by sight or hint…..but…the internet,…drugs…..dangerous people….sex with strangers….these are a very bad idea for anyone—-and for us who are transgendered it is a recipe for death only too often. I say to my sisters who are younger than me, get wise! Don’t let your successes lull you into a false sense of security—this is what can happen. I grieve the loss of this young woman, and I will ask her to pray for all of us here on earth, that we may learn to live in peace and love—-and safety.

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