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comment by MechtaTheMicrodot
MechtaTheMicrodot  ·  4241 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Letters of Note: "GAY CONVERSION WEEK"

http://laist.com/2012/04/11/lapd_improving_transgender_relat...

^Considering 'walking while trans' basically used to be a crime in LA until very recently... Latino transgendered women especially. The LAPD would arrest them, just for being a transgendered minority, and subject them to 'strip searches' to 'prove' their gender. That's right, there had to be a set policy to not just arrest women for being transgendered ethnic minorities, and sexually assault and humiliate them. Many of them would be picked up just because they where walking to the grocery store, as if it's unfathomable that transgendered women who are ethnic minorities could be anything other then prostitutes.

Lets not act like the LAPD is any friend to queer people, or ever has been.

http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/walking%20while%20trans

So, I'm sad to say... it seems things with the LAPD just went down hill from this letter. Hopefully they are getting better, but only because FINALLY someone Queer got put into a position of power. Imagine the minority groups that aren't lucky enough to get a personal advocate.