This whole story makes me sick; and then it makes me want to cry. For those who don't know, Duanna Johnson was a transgender MTF who was beaten by two 'officers' in a police station where she was being processed after a prostitution arrest. That was in February; in June she went public about her treatment. The beating was caught on videotape, and was leaked, so that backed up her story. (Probably leaked by someone who couldn't stand seeing another human being treated that way, thank God!)This month, Duanna Johnson, of Memphis, Tennessee, was shot "execution-style" and killed. To date no one has been charged with her murder; does anyone really believe that anyone will be? I don't....
No one deserves to be treated that way, especially because of their gender. This is the kind of world we live in, where not only do our rights get taken away, our lives get taken at the drop of a hat, and the general public doesn't care because it's just some "cross-dressing faggot".... God how it makes me want to cry, matter of fact it DOES make me cry. Despite her size, she probably had never hurt anyone, and all she wanted was to be able to live her life the way she wanted. We have Thomas Beaties in the world getting all kinds of publicity, but the Duanna Johnsons get a couple of mentions and that's it. What do we have to do to get not only equal treatment, but HUMANE treatment? How do we stop the Matthew Shepherds, and the Duanna Johnsons from losing their lives? How do we get the society as a whole to see that we are no different from them, no matter what we do in the bedroom or with who? How do we do it?
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Tall order that...building a homogeneous society that allows all to live free. Maybe if them who oppress others would learn that their oppression is the chains that bind them more so than the oppressed.
Ms. Johnson is another brick in the path to freedom for GLBT people. Maybe her murder will never be solved and never be well published but to the community of them who are like her it is one more galvanizing point, moving a sector of society to go beyond common thought.
*sigh* GLBT people will find their freedom. As soon as the public finds another group to hate, the door will open. That is the nature of how we overcome.
I understand what you're saying, and while I agree that it is true, I still find it hard to accept that human nature is such that it needs a group to hate in order to survive. It seems to feed on an unreasonable hatred of any aspect of itself which is labeled "different". So sad that in order for the GLBT people to "find their freedom", some other group has to lose theirs....
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