Comments on: Another Gender Non-Conforming Person Murdered

By: Transgender Week of Remembrance: Reflecting Upon Those Lost : glaadBLOG.org

Transgender Week of Remembrance: Reflecting Upon Those Lost : glaadBLOG.org — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 20:41:23 +0000

[...] Williams. Date of Death: February 22, 2008. Simmie was a gender non-conforming 17-year old from Fort Lauderdale, Florida who was planning on getting a GED and going to culinary school. [...]

By: Freedom of expression does not include hate crimes - or biased reportage « bird of paradox

Mon, 05 May 2008 09:45:03 +0000

[...] find it hard to be objective right now, so will close by repeating urbanartiste’s comment at Feministe, which I think pretty much sums it [...]

By: Annette Bf.

Annette Bf. — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 21:38:12 +0000

Uh…hmmm…I almost don’t want to say it, because it speaks to
even more separation and division..but…
Larry King from Oxnard, CA was not african american…Simmie Williams was.
This could be part of the reason why there have been, as the article says, ” no quotes from Simmie’s family or friends. None of the usual humanizing comments or tidbits from people who knew Simmie. Just the usual identification of a freak…”

The media picks its heroes and its victims. If its not a blonde
cheerleader, then, any non-black victim will do.

Question..what was Larry King’s ethnicity? It’s hard to tell from photos….I suppose it really really doesn’t matter..but to the mainstream media, the closer one is to looking like Matthew Shepard, the more press coverage will result.

By: Mahu_ Wahine

Mahu_ Wahine — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:09:53 +0000

Aloha everyone!

it upsets me to see how some people in this world feels they have the right to go around and act out on their hate and prejudices. I am from Hawaii, born and raised, here i am known as a MahuWahine the term used for Transgender. I just wanted to say that whoever is doing this to these young spirited beings should look into the mirror and find who you reaelly are, do not take out your frustrations on anyone else. I think this person is confused about who and what he or she is and fells inferior to those who found who they are on the inside! “YOU WANT TO TAKE OUT ACTIONS…..TAKE YOUR OWN DAMNED LIFE IDIOT!”

By: Rose

Rose — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 00:58:45 +0000

I was just surfing the web when I saw this post. I opened it and read it – the whole thing. then my first reaction was that this must have been years ago. I looked again and I saw it was the 22nd. Of this month. That would be less than a week ago. I don’t know about you, but that scares the hell out of me.

Blessings for the entire family of this poor poor child. He was too grown up for the world around him to stand.

By: Balance « Dissent and Daybreak

Balance « Dissent and Daybreak — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:21:50 +0000

[...] Simmie Williams Murdered It goes: if you’re not angry, you’re not paying attention. (Thanks to Anthony for the [...]

By: meggygurl

meggygurl — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 14:22:16 +0000

The other day I was trying to explain to my SWM (straight white male) friend that I’m *scared* right now to be out. That I am actually, actively scared that someone is going to kill me just because of who I love. That someone will freak out and go into a gay panic and kill me. I’m scared that I’m going to have to go back in the closet when I get out of grad school to get a job in the school systems. I’m scared that my car is going to get keyed cause I have a rainbow sticker on it.

I am *scared* to be gay right now. And I’m just a lesbian.

My thoughts go out to all those transgender kids out there, I can’t even imagine how hard it is for them.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 22:21:41 +0000

I’m with Alicepaul. This is dreadful. My friend D had a dream that someone shot her lesbian daughter one night. There is so much violence towards people of color and GlBT people. If some killer was going around murdering preppy white boys, the people whould be howling.

By: Mercurial Georgia

Mercurial Georgia — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:23:19 +0000

re: alicepaul

That destroy me so much.

Reminds me of how it used to be (?) when women were raped, sympathy is shred for the bright young men who will lose their future at the trial. If the boy is white, middle-class, and educated, he can do no wrong! If he rapes, he isn’t ruining her life, it’s her ruining his life!

I mean, isn’t it sad that all those beautiful men of the SS fell from their positions of power and are sent into prison or hiding? (Sadly, it is primitively human that many people /empathize/ with the SS more than the inmates, because they rather identify with someone who was once very powerful, than people who had been dehumanized and made helpless.)

By: Mercurial Georgia

Mercurial Georgia — Sun, 24 Feb 2008 15:16:50 +0000

Generally violent transgender people…you need to bring guns, or they will /bake bread/ with the blood of your children! Everything about every individual of the group is true, because the might of the people make it so!