This news story:
Trans woman shot to death in parking lot by cold shooter who then steals her car
Tennessee was the leader among several states to enact anti-trans legislation this year. Now trans people are being murdered and misgendered there.
Advocates have confirmed that a victim in an apparent carjacking and murder weeks ago was a 35 year-old transgender woman, who was misgendered in reports of her death by local media and police statements.
Police are searching for a man seen on camera as he jumped into the victim’s vehicle after shooting her in cold blood.
The shooting took place outside the Bellevue Inn, a motel right next to Jesse Turner Park in the city’s Rozelle area, barely miles from downtown. Danyale’s body was discovered and taken to a hospital, where she was declared dead.
Police believe her shooter drove off in her 2010 black Nissan Altima right after.
Little other information has been offered about Danyale’s death, and the few reports of the shooting refer to her as “a man.” The Memphis Police Department tweeted that she was a “male shooting victim.”
“Having lost yet another Black transgender woman to such tragic means is heartbreaking, but also serves as a reminder that we must continue to fight for the safety of our community, especially when it comes to gun control,” Tori Cooper, Director for Community Engagement for HRC’s Transgender Justice Initiative, said in a statement for the organization. “Too often, members of the transgender community are senselessly and violently taken from us by firearms. Danyale’s death comes at a somber time for the community as we recognize this year as the most violent and deadliest year on record for our community.”
This is the Tweet in question:
Officers are on the scene of a shooting at 1250 S Bellevue. A male shooting victim was xported to ROH in critical condition but did not survive his injuries.
Prelim info indicated that the shooting stemmed from an argument with an unknown male who fled in a 4-door sedan.— Memphis Police Dept (@MEM_PoliceDept) November 7, 2021
This not not an inaccurate statement, transwomen are male.
So the victim’s car was stolen.
The victim goes by Danyale but there us no information on what the victim’s ID says.
The victim dies, the corner sees a dick and balls on the body and writes down male on a form, the police send out a Tweet based on the information on the form.
The news repeats the information based on the police report.
Memphis is one of the most dangerous cities in America and carjackings are way up.
This appears to be a carjacking turned deadly but that doesn’t help The Narrative.
The problem is, this sort of bullshit makes me less inclined to care than more.
This story should be about how bad crime is in Memphis, instead it’s about why we’re bad people for being transphobic. This person was not shot because people in Tennessee didn’t want boys using girls’ bathrooms in schools.
Fix the crime rate in Memphis, which is 64.4% Democrat. But that doesn’t help The Narrative.
So, a human being is murdered, and the real crime is misgendering?
Wow. The stupid is strong…
If you look through the list of murders of transgenders, it is overwhelminglydudes in dresses that are murdered. A huge proportion of the murder victims are black, but also almost equally the assailants are also black hetero men, and the last bit of info is almost always the assailants knew the victims.
It is well known that there is a good deal of homophobia/whateverphobia in the black community. I would wager a good deal of these murders are from black men who were “tricked” into some sexual act with the trans female, only to find out later they had sex with a man instead of a woman, and thus probably reaped some revenge on the trans female. This isn’t to justify the rationale for said murders, this is simply stating a theory I have about why this happens predominantly to black trans females rather than different demographics like white trans males.
While I can’t speak to Danyale’s incident, because so far the details of the assailant and the murder itself is very sketch, but considering it happened outside of a hotel, I would not be surprised to see it as yet another example of a guy tricked and thus raging and killing the other person.
To sum it up, perhaps these advocacy groups should look into two additional things: why is there such rampant homophobia in the black community, and why do some trans people feel the need to trick people into having sex with them?