No one is talking about the genocide in Sudan or the infantcide of the unborn either!
Edit: Since Veronica blocked me I can not reply too any of your LWNJ's comments! Next time e-mail me so I can reply! LMAO!
Why is no one talking about the genocide going on?
Veronica
2011/02/20 20:11:45
In the US and around the world there is a genocide going on silently, quietly and few are even aware of it.
Here in the US people believe that this is only happening in OTHER nations and refuse to believe, speak up or investigate. A little online research brings shocking and amazing reality to this trend towards INCREASING violence of an entire class of people.
Why should we care that US citizens are being eradicated?
Why should we care that around the world people are being eradicated?
Aren't there too many people already?
What if you were one of those people?
I am.
So let's hear it from one of these people a case of WHY should we care about your life?
Here is why.
It is a proven fact in my life and probably in yours that men and women think differently.
But in case you doubt this, let me share a personal story of success?
A multi-billion dollar oil company invited my former employer to bid on solving a problem. The result would be a 6 figure project per site with countless potential sites. In a room full of male engineers, some with far more knowledge and experience than I possess, none could see an answer to this problem long thought to be impossible. I immediately saw a solution that only required 15 minutes of programming (generously speaking) and use of a very simple and basic device. The result was that we saved the client $25,000 per site and had by far the most desired solution.
So what happened? Women think differently than men do.
So should women do everything? NO. Because men think of things that women do not as well.
But it is not limited to gender. Add in race, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
Cultural differences also allow for greater perspective. Diversity in thinking is one of the single greatest tools and resources that a company or society can have.
So based on this we should EMBRACE Diversity right?
But we do not. Conservatism is to require CONFORMITY. Religion is all about CONFORMITY. Business is all about CONFORMING to the boss's expectations.
Diversity is actually seen as a liability. The result? Discrimination against those who are different.
Who is more different than Transgender?
Transgender people have been shown on brain scans to THINK DIFFERENT:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20032-transsexual-diffe...
So what? Why should we care?
People are DYING.
Worldwide
The UN shared a European a study that determined: Every 3rd day the murder of a trans person is reported.
Preliminary results of a new Trans Murder Monitoring Project show more than
200 reported cases of murdered trans people from January 2008 to June 2009
by Carsten Balzer (in cooperation with NGO and TGEU), July 2009
Oh that is the world, this sort of thing would "never" happen in the US, right?
WRONG. The US is one of the single WORST offenders. Iran and Cuba both have full legal protections for Transgender people as does most of Europe, and much of South America and Asia. The US alone counts for nearly 10% of the homicides of Trans-identified people. Africa is probably the only worse continent for a trans person to live on than North America. If you have not already left this thread because of not caring or wanting to be involved: here are some stories of the killings, discrimination and violence that we experience every day here in the "land of the free" known as the US of A.
Here is a 200+ page in-depth multi-year study of US transgender discrimination:
http://endtransdiscrimination.org/PDFs/NTDS_Report.pdf
In Schroer vs the US Library of Congress, it was found that the US Government practiced employment discrimination against transgender people.
As if we needed a court case to tell us that. HELLO? Military?
Here are some of the results of that discrimination:
Here in the US people believe that this is only happening in OTHER nations and refuse to believe, speak up or investigate. A little online research brings shocking and amazing reality to this trend towards INCREASING violence of an entire class of people.
Why should we care that US citizens are being eradicated?
Why should we care that around the world people are being eradicated?
Aren't there too many people already?
What if you were one of those people?
I am.
So let's hear it from one of these people a case of WHY should we care about your life?
Here is why.
It is a proven fact in my life and probably in yours that men and women think differently.
But in case you doubt this, let me share a personal story of success?
A multi-billion dollar oil company invited my former employer to bid on solving a problem. The result would be a 6 figure project per site with countless potential sites. In a room full of male engineers, some with far more knowledge and experience than I possess, none could see an answer to this problem long thought to be impossible. I immediately saw a solution that only required 15 minutes of programming (generously speaking) and use of a very simple and basic device. The result was that we saved the client $25,000 per site and had by far the most desired solution.
So what happened? Women think differently than men do.
So should women do everything? NO. Because men think of things that women do not as well.
But it is not limited to gender. Add in race, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
Cultural differences also allow for greater perspective. Diversity in thinking is one of the single greatest tools and resources that a company or society can have.
So based on this we should EMBRACE Diversity right?
But we do not. Conservatism is to require CONFORMITY. Religion is all about CONFORMITY. Business is all about CONFORMING to the boss's expectations.
Diversity is actually seen as a liability. The result? Discrimination against those who are different.
Who is more different than Transgender?
Transgender people have been shown on brain scans to THINK DIFFERENT:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20032-transsexual-diffe...
So what? Why should we care?
People are DYING.
Worldwide
The UN shared a European a study that determined: Every 3rd day the murder of a trans person is reported.
Preliminary results of a new Trans Murder Monitoring Project show more than
200 reported cases of murdered trans people from January 2008 to June 2009
by Carsten Balzer (in cooperation with NGO and TGEU), July 2009
Oh that is the world, this sort of thing would "never" happen in the US, right?
WRONG. The US is one of the single WORST offenders. Iran and Cuba both have full legal protections for Transgender people as does most of Europe, and much of South America and Asia. The US alone counts for nearly 10% of the homicides of Trans-identified people. Africa is probably the only worse continent for a trans person to live on than North America. If you have not already left this thread because of not caring or wanting to be involved: here are some stories of the killings, discrimination and violence that we experience every day here in the "land of the free" known as the US of A.
Here is a 200+ page in-depth multi-year study of US transgender discrimination:
http://endtransdiscrimination.org/PDFs/NTDS_Report.pdf
In Schroer vs the US Library of Congress, it was found that the US Government practiced employment discrimination against transgender people.
As if we needed a court case to tell us that. HELLO? Military?
Here are some of the results of that discrimination:
Here are just two examples of the unnecessary deaths of American citizens because of who they are:
Beating and Murder of a Duanna Johnson by police:
In 2008 Memphis PD severely beat a Transgender woman while
in custody in the Memphis jail. The
video was caught on film by security and the two police officers were
fired. Nearly a year later Duanna
Johnson was executed in the streets with a bullet to the head. Memphis PD with a 90% solution to murder
cases was "surprisingly" unable to solve the crime even two years
later.
http://www.abc24.com/news/local/story/Duanna-Johnson-s-Murder... http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/18/us/18memphis.html ================= Jennifer Gale denied employment and housing which resulted in her death freezing on the streets of Austin Texas. http://www.dallasvoice.com/watch-homeless-transgender-woman-j... .... homeless transgender (My note: as a rape victim/survivor, I certainly do not blame her for not sleeping and showering with men). http://www.pamshouseblend.com/diary/8691/ The Texas Civil Rights Review has a piece up entitled Equality Texas mourns the death of Jennifer Gale, a ...Jennifer's voice rang through Austin Council Chamber Her death points to critical problems faced by the homeless, "Jennifer most nights slept outdoors," said Austin Marti Bier, policy aide for Austin City Council Member Randi There was really nowhere for Jennifer Gale to go to protect ==================== There are countless more murdered victims, countless more Here are a few recent violent murders of transfolk that made news headlines that you were Venus Xtravaganza Brandon Teena Gwen Araujo Fred Martinez, Jr Emonie Spaulding Roberto González Onrubia Ruby Ordenana Erika Keels Sanesha Stewart Larry King of Oxnard, California Angie Zapata LaTeisha Green Amanda González-Andujar Roy Antonio Jones, III Stacy Blahnik Lee
woman Jennifer Gale died on the streets of Austin — from a heart attack likely
caused in part by the extreme cold. Gale was a perennial political candidate
who ran for Dallas mayor in 2007. She slept on the streets because the only
shelter for women in Austin, run by the Salvation Army, wouldn’t house her
according to her gender identity, which would have forced her to sleep and
shower with men.
Jennifer Gale Death Caused by Lack of Shelter for Transgender Homeless,
explaining how the perennial candidate for Dallas and Austin public office died
this past Wednesday. From the article:
47-year-old transgender homeless woman who died yesterday. Jennifer's body was
found Wednesday morning. She was lying in an outdoor walkway at the First
English Lutheran Church in Central Austin.
doors every week, often times in support of the homeless population of which
she was a part. "Let's give the homeless a place to exercise that need
jobs and need help," said Gale Tuesday night before the city's Health
Services Board.
and especially by homeless women and the transgender homeless.
Mayor Will Wynn. "Jennifer, we believe, is the 136th person who has died
sleeping on the streets (of Austin) over the last 12 months."
Shade, said the following regarding Ms. Gale's death: "Something Jennifer would never talk about, but was a reality
for her, is that she is a transwoman living in a transphobic society.
Homelessness in the trans-community is a really big problem, and one that goes
ignored. There are no laws in Texas protecting transgender people, whether from
job discrimination, housing discrimination or hate crimes.
herself from the cold last night. The Salvation Army (the only shelter in town
that takes in women) would not let her in there unless she was grouped with the
men (which includes sleeping with, and showering with, other homeless men).
They would make her use her male birth name and completely disregard, and
disrespect, her identity as a trans-woman. There is so much to be learned from
Jennifer Gale, and so much to be worked on in our community."
unreported and vastly more countless deaths due to "non-violent"
discrimination, homelessness, and lack of availability of medical care. Our blood is on your hands by your silence
about these.
probably unaware of:
When will you care? When will you decide that enough have died and that we need to end the violence against gifted, talented people who wanted nothing more than an opportunity to exist? Yes, they LOOK different and yes, they THINK different.
WHO CAN WE LEARN MOST FROM?
People who think just like us?
Or those who see things different from us?
We are here, we are not going away. We are dying, but more are born all of the time. Our blood is on your hands, for if you do not speak out for us, then you are complicit as an accomplice to the crimes. How much more blood will you have on your hands before you demand justice?
Is LIFE, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness too much to ask for in the United States? Weren't those promises made in the Bill of Rights?
When will those promises be kept?
Will you continue to deny them?
Read More: http://endtransdiscrimination.org/PDFs/NTDS_Report...
There is so much bad stuff going on constantly that people just get jaded and don't see how they can help.
Seriously, it sounds like you have been to too many planned parenthood classes.
I couldn't for the life of me understand how people casn have such hatred inside them, the idea of hurting any human being, no matter what they've done, just isn't possible for me.
Here's a few for you:
In 2005, 1,181 women were murdered by an intimate partner. That's an average of three women every day. Of all the women murdered in the U.S., about one-third were killed by an intimate partner.
Blacks were victims of an estimated 805,000 nonfatal violent crimes and of about 8,000 homicides in 2005.
An estimated 2 out of every 100,000 children die from injuries that were a result of abuse or neglect.
These are just a few statistics and are classified separately under sex, race and age group for instance. Having subgroups like transgendered, homosexual for example is being taken into account with the above "study".
My point is that no one should be singled out. When someone is victimized and/or murdered, especially in a very violent crime, each and every one of us is important. No one is special, period. And therefore genocide is a relative term.
People are narcissists and cruel. I dunno I have never in my life wanted to go hurt another person...I love money and shopping and I have never mugged anyone ( yesss as a teen I did steal out of my parent's and siblings wallets, hehe but often I would tell them "Btw I took a 20 out of your purse, wallet, pants pocket..."( my brother would come home after a night of partying and leave those previous nights pants on his bedroom floor and there would be 10's 20's etc in the pockets, and he would leave for work and well that cash was just sitting there, hehe... but haha him I would tell i took that money when he was high and in a good mood, he always smiled and said, Okay!"), but I could not imagine mugging anyone, and I stopped stealing at like 15 or so. And I can't imagine physically harming anyone, I just don;t get that at all.
But this is a crappy world with demonic people roaming about, only someone like a demon could go and beat, mug, rob, kill, rape and/or otherwise harm others, these are the narcissistic slobs who care only about themselves and their desires no matter how cruel and unjust those desires are, these curs put all the terrible evil energy out there! But what can you do, these slobs have existed since man first started committing evil, all you can...
People are narcissists and cruel. I dunno I have never in my life wanted to go hurt another person...I love money and shopping and I have never mugged anyone ( yesss as a teen I did steal out of my parent's and siblings wallets, hehe but often I would tell them "Btw I took a 20 out of your purse, wallet, pants pocket..."( my brother would come home after a night of partying and leave those previous nights pants on his bedroom floor and there would be 10's 20's etc in the pockets, and he would leave for work and well that cash was just sitting there, hehe... but haha him I would tell i took that money when he was high and in a good mood, he always smiled and said, Okay!"), but I could not imagine mugging anyone, and I stopped stealing at like 15 or so. And I can't imagine physically harming anyone, I just don;t get that at all.
But this is a crappy world with demonic people roaming about, only someone like a demon could go and beat, mug, rob, kill, rape and/or otherwise harm others, these are the narcissistic slobs who care only about themselves and their desires no matter how cruel and unjust those desires are, these curs put all the terrible evil energy out there! But what can you do, these slobs have existed since man first started committing evil, all you can do is be hyper careful and know who your friends are and stay out of known bad areas of towns. And maybe take a few self defense courses so if it is going to be a physical fight you can defend yourself and if they have a weapon maybe you can learn how to disarm that devil.
But ahhh the next world I go to noooo way will it be like this world of crime, cruelness, unfairness, diseases, poverty, pollution, the aging process, disparity among classes etc etc, the next world I hope will be a wonderful, stress free beautiful place!!!
Genocide is the deliberate and systematic destruction, in whole or in part, of an ethnic, racial, religious, or national group.[1] While a precise definition varies among genocide scholars, a legal definition is found in the 1948 United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (CPPCG). Article 2 of this convention defines genocide as "any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such: killing members of the group; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life, calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; [and] forcibly transferring children of the group to another group."[2] Because of the influence of Joseph Stalin, this definition of genocide under international law does not include political groups.[3][4][5] Moreover, although this definition in principle includes the destruction of a social group through the forcible removal of a population, the drafters deliberately excluded specific reference to this method of destruction,[6] which was the most common method and which the Soviet Union was carrying out and the Western Allies condoning even during the drafting of the Convention.
My hands and ribs broken multiple times starting in elementary school.
I have been stabbed, shot at, and attacked by large groups. I have other injuries to my neck, back and muscles.
We are denied employment, housing and medical care. Although I am considered a "success story" because I have a job, my employers health insurance SPECFICALLY denies me coverage.
I have watched most of my friends die. Very few of those who I knew are around anymore. Sometimes we hear why and have a memorial service and as often as not, we just never see them again as their families do not admit to knowing them much less contacting us.
Genocide seems very appropriate to me. Walk a mile in my shoes before you judge.
BTW, I am trying to get my acct deleted as we speak. There was too much negative sent my way over this thread. Wish you well.
Look, even gays discriminate against transgenders. There's this story that's been going around about a boy who claims to be transgender and he claimed this at the age of two his parents say. At the age of two, you do not realize there is a gender identity and your gender identity is often created by how your parents dress you and cut your hair. The kids parents have obviously done this to him as you don't see a gender identity issue for kids that young and you could raise your son dressed as a boy and they would not notice.
It is very possible that you can be born or become trangender because we are all born with gender instincts ranging from sissys and tomboys to transgenders and cross dressers.
In China, the government pays for the operation because it's a willing sterilization. They are accepted in Brazil. Japan and Thailand as well.
A lot of the TG's killed in the US are transgenders and the reason it happens is the guys aren't told or others find out so the John kills them out of humiliation. They're not all prostitutes of course as many are innocent victims.
No one should be killed for something like this where no one is harmed but even gays and Liberals have committed such crimes and have hate for these people. As long as they tell their partner, I see nothing wrong with it.
That's like calling all hate-crimes as a collective 'genocide'.
The only reason you've noticed this is because it's in isolation.
What about black people who are killed for the colour of their skin?
Or the "Paki-bashings" during the era of the Skinhead?
I could make a whole list of crimes committed due to racial, ethical or religious predjudice.
But none of them are labeled as "genocide".
These killings of transgendered people are hate-crimes, not genocide.
Labeling the killings you've described as 'genocide' is insulting and degrading to victims of real genocide.