List of people killed for being transgender
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This is a list of transgender and intersex people who have been unlawfully killed because of their transgendered status.
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Sanesha Stewart (died 10 February 2008) was a 25-year-old transwoman living in the Bronx, New York who was stabbed to death.[1] An ex-convict was arrested for the murder. Police reported that he had visited her for sex and became enraged over the realization that she was not biologically born female.[1] Stewart's murder, initially reported by the New York Daily News as "Fooled John Stabbed Bronx Tranny", outraged transgender activists for the act as well as the reporting in the media.[2] A neighbor denied the police's assertion she was a prostitute.[1] The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) intervened to inform the Daily News that tranny is often considered pejorative and dehumanizing and that insinuating Stewart "fooled" her murderer was both defamatory and irresponsible.[3]The paper dropped both tranny and fooled in follow-up stories and changed the online version of the original report to address the concerns raised.[1]
Larry King (died 12 February 2008) was a gay 15-year-old eighth-grade student who wore gender variant clothes, jewelry and make-up.[4] He came out as gay at school and Masen Davis, executive director of the Transgender Law Center noted that “more and more kids are coming out in junior high school and expressing gender different identities at younger ages.”[4] King was bullied and teased by his fellow students due to his effeminacy and openness about being gay, having come out at ten-years-old and while in the third grade.[5] On the morning of February 12, Lawrence was in the school’s computer lab with 24 other students. Fellow student, fourteen-year-old Brandon McInerney was witnessed repeatedly looking at King during the class. At 8:15 a.m, McInerney shot King twice in the head using a handgun.[6] King was declared brain dead the next day but kept on a ventilator to preserve his organs for donation.[4] Prosecutors charged McInerney as an adult with murder as a premeditated hate crime and gun possession.[4] The trial is pending as of November 2008. The crime was reputed to be the most high-profile hate crime case of 2008. Newsweek described it as "the most prominent gay-bias crime since the 1998 murder of Matthew Shepard", bringing attention to issues of gun violence as well as gender expression and sexual identity of teenagers.[5]
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- ^ a b c d Paddock, Barry (11 February 2008). "Slain transgendered neighbor 'a friend of whole building,' Bronx man says". New York Daily News. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
{{cite web}}: Unknown parameter|coauthors=ignored (|author=suggested) (help) - ^ Andrews, Erline (21 February 2008). "Trans Bias in Bronx Murder: Slain woman became a victim of 'sensational and disrespectful' media coverage". New York Blade. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
- ^ Creager, Cindi (11 February 2008). "GLAAD Action Prompts New York Daily News To Change Defamatory headline, Problematic Story About Transgender Woman's Murder". GLADD. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
- ^ a b c d Cathcart, Rebecca (23 February 2008). "Boy's Killing, Labeled a Hate Crime, Stuns a Town". New York Times. Retrieved 2008-11-21.
- ^ a b Setoodeh, Ramin (2008-07-19). "Young, Gay and Murdered". Newsweek. Retrieved 2008-07-23.
{{cite web}}: Italic or bold markup not allowed in:|publisher=(help) - ^ ""GaySoFla.com remembers Lawrence "Larry" King - A Young Hero"". Miami Herald. 2008-02-19. Retrieved 2008-02-23.
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