Youtube Video of Incarcerated Transgender Incarcerated and Activists

Hello Bloggers

 I have found some interesting YouTube video for you to watch to  try to understand what  incarcerated transgender people  go through while they are incarcerated.



http://youtu.be/Bc_Hi09zK_c


This is  a Transsexual Women  who is speaking up for rights for Transgender Individuals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-usoZzqH9nw&feature=share&list=PL4CFC407426907B9E

LaDonna Conner

WGST 202

T/Th 11-12:15

Professor Currans

Blog Topic: Incarcerated Transgender

Article Review # 1

 

Stotzer. Rebecca.  (2008). “Gender Identity and Hate Crimes:  Violence against Transgender People in Los Angles County.”  Sexuality Research& Social Policy, Vol.5, Issue 1, pp 43-52.

 

In “Gender Identity and Hate Crimes: Violence against Transgender People in Los Angles County,” Rebecca Stotzer discusses the underreporting of violence crimes based on gender identity.  She examines cases of violence that were based on the victim’s gender identity, verbalize high level of prejudices and some of the more complex reasons transgender persons maybe  targets of these violent crimes.  Transgender socioeconomic, race and sexuality plays important roles in these finding.  Stotzer explains why these crimes have gone underreported and furthermore, I will try to explain transgender to help individuals have a better understanding of what transgender is / is not and the Human Rights that are being violated. 

 

In order to understand the problems the transgender populations are facing first one needs to understand transgender.  According to an article by Susan Stryker “Transgender History” stated, “Being transgendered is like being gay—some people are just “that way.”  Stryker also described that, “People who feel the need to resist their birth-assigned gender or to live as a member of another gender have tended to encounter significant forms of discrimination and prejudice.”    Stotzer’s study of why hate crimes went underreported was that The Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990, had reporting of hate-based crimes but none of the information collected had a little box or a check mark for those that was transgender.  They were based on a person sex/gender: male or female, nothing in between.  Transgender is not on the included on the list of federally protected statuses in other words the government can’t protect what they do see.

 

Secondly, race is another factor of hate crime with transgender people in Los Angeles County.  According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, in 2006 Whites were the lowest race to be bothered by the perpetrators Latinos and Blacks were the highest. It’s hard to create a pattern of study since Los Angeles County has a history of racial tension from the different gangs’ activity.    Transgender people could just be an easy target because many gang members feel they are an easy prey.

 

The third issue for transgender people would be the verbalization against them. Verbalizations an act of a person(s) speaking loud and demeaning and threaten them.  The perpetrator can physical assault and insult at the same time (ex. “You faggot, I am going to kick your ass”.) 

Finally, Stotzer believes if people understood transgender people the violence would dropped down with a lack of understand something people tend to demonstrate the unknown by punishing them.  The United Nations,” Declaration of Human Rights”, states in Article 2. Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. … Article 3; Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.

 

This article supplies great information on the transgender community.   The hardship they have to face daily because of how other people think they should live, if they do not conform to their way they are then treated like human garbage.  WHY?

 

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LaDonna Intro to the BLOG world

     Hello to the Blog World.  My name is LaDonna Conner and I' attend Eastern Michigan University where I'm majoring in Social Work.  I have a great passion for helping people in many aspects.  I believe that Social Work is a field that selects you, you don't select it. All of my life I have always been the person that people would come to for answers, advice or just can I help them with something.  I've learned over the years to stop volunteering so much to the same people I’m starting to feel USED!  But, seriously Eastern has a Mission which states,

Eastern Michigan University Social Work Program is committed to the empowerment of poor, oppressed, vulnerable, and underserved population; the creation of social welfare policy based on the strengths perspective; the advancement community problem-solving; and leadership in organizations and communities. I am this person who really believes in help the underserved population who is oppressed and vulnerable.  Helping to give empowerment to the financial unstable, I don’t select to use the word “poor”, that’s a state of mind.  So my blog will be focusing on Incarcerated Transgender.