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Sudbury shelter faces human-rights complaint: YWCA staff asked 'very sexual' questions, complainant says
A transgender woman has filed a human-rights complaint against a Sudbury women’s shelter.
Jessica Larabee — who is transitioning to female from male — claims the YWCA asked her personal sexual questions and then turned her away.
When Larabee, 23, visited her hometown of Sudbury last July, she said she had problems with her partner and called the YWCA shelter for help. After she told shelter staff she was born male, she said, she was asked a series of questions about her genitals.
“The only people who should really know what I have or what I don’t have or what it looks like — the only people who should know — are me, my partner and I guess the doctors,” Larabee said.
“They asked me if I have a penis or a vagina, if I pee standing up, sitting down — very sexual questions that if you asked someone who is not trans, I believe would be considered sexual harassment.”
Spent the night in a park
Larabee said she was then directed to a men-only shelter, but instead spent the night in the city’s downtown Memorial Park, before going home to Toronto.
YWCA executive director Marlene Gorman said she can’t comment on individual cases. But she said transgender women are not allowed in the shelter.
“Someone who identifies as a transgendered woman would be referred to another safe space,” she said.
Gorman said that policy is currently being reviewed “in terms of how we can best support transgendered women leaving violent situations.”
The Ontario Human Right Tribunal will decide in the coming months whether it will hear Larabee’s complaint.
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Trans Woman Fights Back Against Street Harasser
Many trans women are targeted by street harassers multiple times a day. It often happen while simple minding one’s own business while walking down the street, buying groceries, taking public transportation, or basically anywhere and at anytime a trans woman is out in public she can be vulnerable to verbal abuse and possible physical assualt.
One trans woman who was harassed as she and her friends walked down a connecting passage in a New York City subway station had enough:
Morning after xmas on the nyc subway train, me and my girlfriends was walking to the train, dude shouted out ‘thats a man’ to my home girl and this is what happens when u disrespect a tranny [sic] in public.
The Trans Woman’s Anti-Violence Project is obviously opposed to violence, but specifically that violence that systematically targets trans women. This includes the abusive verbal assaults and threats of physical and sexual violence that many trans women experience on a regular basis. The accumulative effect of constantly being attacked whenever one leaves the home has a serious impact on the health and well-being of many trans women.
Given the constant violence and harassment that trans women endure, this woman’s action should be considered an act of self-defense. Hopefully this man learned something and will not make the same mistake again.
And it should be noted that the man who was harassing the woman in the video got up and walked away without any serious injuries. Since he is not at risk of being beat up by a trans woman on a regular basis, this incident has a significantly minor impact on his life than is abusive remarks have on those he harassed.
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“I stand with CeCe” Poster Project
The “I Stand with Cece” poster project is an effort to capture the breadth of Cece’s support. We believe that racism and transphobia permeate all layers of government, and that there is no justice for Cece in the Hennepin County legal system. We believe that a court system that defends white supremacists forfeits legitimacy. We call upon the Hennepin County Attorney Michael Freeman to drop all charges against Cece, and we call upon all people of conscious to connect with her case and engage in efforts to defend her.
- Take a moment to reflect on why you are drawn to Cece’s cause, and then complete the sentence on the poster (linked here and below): “Because _________________, I stand with Cece.”
- Sign your name underneath.
- Provide contact and preference information in the bottom section to let us know how we can share your statement of support. (We won’t share your email with anyone.)
- Drop the poster off at the Exchange at 3405 Chicago Ave S, in Minneapolis, or bring it to our December 15th event, “Battling White Supremacy”, where we’ll have all the posters on display for the first time.
- Download a companion poster below, and display it proudly.
Our goal is to create a visual display that will illustrate the diversity of reasons to stand with Cece. Thank you for adding your voice to the mix.
Below are downloadable versions of the blank poster and an explanatory flyer, as well as a companion posters that reads:
“Because I oppose white supremacy, transphobia, violence against “women, and the prison-industrial complex.
“Because I oppose hate.
“I stand with CeCe.”
- Blank poster (to be filled in by you)
- Large companion poster (11×17)
- Explanatory flyer to be hung along with posters
- Small, square companion posters (left: color, right: b&w):
“No means no. No means no if she’s drunk or sober. No means no if she’s in the dorm room or on the street. No means no even if she said yes first and changed her mind. No means no—no matter what. I’m asking all of you, all of you to help get this message out.” —Joe Biden
The video is being released on the 17th anniversary of the passage of his Violence Against Women’s Act, which is up for reauthorization this year.
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How To Rape A Woman And Get Away With It
WARNING: CONTAINS TRIGGERS
Apparently, a woman’s testimony is worth so little in this country that not only do we largely fail to convict rapists when their victims have the misfortune to know them personally — we also can’t convict even those criminals who break into strangers’ homes and commit their rapes while armed. We also can’t convict those criminals stupid enough to call their victims and admit their crimes. (West is not even a uniquely stupid criminal in that regard.) Timothy West will be going back to prison, but not for raping the woman who so bravely confronted him, on the phone the day after her assault, and in court — only to serve out the remainder of his sentence for that burglary. Because burglary is a crime juries actually think merits punishment.
(Source: face-down-asgard-up)
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