WATCH as Lil Duval advocates DEATH to Trans Women on The Breakfast Club

On the radio show The Breakfast Club, a comedian Lil Duval lost his fucking mind and said some ignorant crap about trans women.

Prodded by Charlamagne Tha God, Angela Yee and DJ Envy, Lil Duval said that if he was tricked into dating a trans woman that she would have to “die.”

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@breakfastclubam @lilduval are you kidding me? Fucking disgusted with this whole video and the constant mistreatment of trans ppl. https://t.co/2pUUy6vioR

— Isis (@MsIsisKing) July 30, 2017

Say Her Name: Zella Ziona

Zella Ziona is the 21st transgender/gender-nonconforming person murdered this year.

In Gaithersburg, Maryland, Zella was shot in the head in an alley between Montgomery Village Plaza and the Montgomery Village Crossing shopping centers.

Later on, Montgomery County Department of Police has identified and arrested Rico Hector Leblond in connection with Zella's murder. A witness claimed that 4 or 5 men surrounded and Rico pulled the gun.

He has been charged with first-degree murder and is being held without bond.

To Zella's family and friends, my heart goes out to you.

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Say her name: Keisha Jenkins

Another transgender woman of color was murdered this past week.

In North Philly, 22-year-old Keisha Jenkins was attacked by gang of men and found on the sidewalk. Keisha was beaten and then shot twice in the back by these men. She was taken to a hospital, where she later died.

At this time we don't know anything about why she was attacked, and the police are not called it a hate crime until more investigation is done.

Here's the news report


Keisha was a Philadelphia native and attended Temple University. Her friends said that she was a great and a determined person. Keisha will be greatly missed within her community.

TransLiberation Tuesday

Our trans sisters are dying and we have to stand up to fight this!

Today, rallies are set up around the country to address this matter. #TransLiberationTuesday will be a call to action. A way we can acknowledge the loss of trans women and hopefully strengthen the overall conversation.

Here's more from The Advocate:

“We say the names of Mya Hall, Kandis Capri, Elisha Walker, Shade Shuler, Ashton O’Hara, India Clarke, Amber Monroe. We say the names of the black trans women whose lives have been cut short and demand that our cisgender family acknowledge that all black lives matter,” said Elle Hearns, Black Lives Matter strategic partner and GetEqual central regional coordinator, in a press release. “The time is now to join #BlackLivesMatter in action as we celebrate our sisters who are living — the very sisters who have fought next to us to sustain this declaration that has been heard around the world.”

The rallies for the observance, dubbed TransLiberation Tuesday, are scheduled as follows, all times local, with one event Wednesday:

Nashville
Tuesday, 1 p.m., Church and 12th streets

Columbus, Ohio
Tuesday, 5 p.m., City Hall

Chicago
Tuesday, 5:30 p.m., 1255 S. Halsted

Dayton, Ohio
Tuesday, 6 p.m., Dayton Courthouse Square

Washington, D.C.
Tuesday, 6:30 p.m., Franklin Square

Houston
Wednesday, 6 p.m., Hermann Park Conservancy

Follow the hashtags #BlackTransLivesMatter and #TransLiberationTuesday starting at 4pm Eastern time.

Three Trans Women of Color found dead Last Week

Three more trans women of color were found dead this past week.

Tamara Dominguez
Kandis Capri
Elisha Walker

BuzzFeed News reports on how these women were killed:

Dominguez was hit by a car and run over around 3 a.m. local time on Saturday morning in a church parking lot in Kansas City, Missouri, police told local station KCTV. Authorities said she was run over at least three times and her death is being investigated as a possible hate crime. A police spokesperson was not immediately available for comment on Tuesday.
“[The killer] doesn’t know she has family,” Dominguez’s friend Juan Rendon told KCTV. “She had her mom. She had her nephews, brothers, and sisters that person didn’t think about what he did.”
Justin Shaw, executive director at the Kansas City Anti-Violence Project, said he was devastated by Dominguez’s death. “Our hearts are heavy with grief that another member of our community was taken too soon,” Shaw said in a statement. A GoFundMe has been establish to help the Dominguez family return her body to Mexico and pay for her funeral.

Capri, 35, was shot outside of an apartment in Phoenix, Arizona, around 11.30 p.m. local time on Aug. 11. Capri’s mother, Andria Gaines, told the Guardian that police said her child was shot three to four times.
AZCentral.com reported Capri was taken to a hospital where she died from her injuries. Gaines said her child’s transgender identity makes her wonder if Capri was killed as part of a hate crime.
“He identified as transgender,” Gaines told the newspaper. “Initially I was against it, but eventually I determined that was my child and I still loved him and I accepted him as he was.”

Walker was reported missing in November from Salisbury, North Carolina. Local gang member Angel Dejesus Arias, 23, was identified as a person of interest in Walker’s disappearance after her burnt-out car was found, Rowan County Sheriff officials told BuzzFeed News in a statement. In July, authorities began using a cadaver-detecting dog in the search for Walker’s remains. But it wasn’t until last Thursday, during the search of a residence near Smithfield that officials discovered Walker’s body in a shallow “crude grave” in woods behind the house.
Arias has since been charged with murder and felony larceny of a motor vehicle.

When will this end?

Trans Activist Launches a Petition to Investigate the Murders of Trans Women of Color

My friend, Monica Roberts from the amazing blog TransGriot, has created a petition asking the Obama Administration to investigate the murders of trans women of color.

Monica writes:

I have been alarmed by the fact that we have already matched the number of trans women killed in the US in all of 2014 (12) in just 8 months, and this year still has 4 months left to go. I am also particularly concerned and incensed about the fact that the majority of trans women that have been murdered are not only trans women of color, but under age 30.

I am pleased to not only affix my signature to this (Signature #23), but also signal boost this We The People petition that started today. It seeks to get 100,000 people to sign on to this effort to get the federal government to investigate this unacceptable slaughter of trans women of color, of which far too many of them have been under 30 years of age.
We have to get the 100,000 signatures by September 10 to get a formal response from the White House on the requested action stated in the petition.

Please go here for the link