Comments on: A Call to Action on Trans Rights in Tennessee http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/12/28/a-call-to-action-on-trans-rights-in-tennessee/ In defense of the sanctimonious women's studies set. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:50:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: Fresh Peaches http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/12/28/a-call-to-action-on-trans-rights-in-tennessee/#comment-218945 Fresh Peaches Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:55:30 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/?p=10447#comment-218945 I wish I could say this surprised me, but it doesn't. I used to live in Memphis. The crime rate there is appalling. Not just hate crimes, but all crimes. I vividly remember the string of kidnappings on campus when I went to school there. I'd be curious how the statistics stack up proportionally off hate crimes versus other crimes compared to other large cities. Memphis has a lot of issues with poverty and despair, caused in large part by flight of rich (white) folks to the suburbs, resulting in infrastructure issues at every level within the city itself since their tax dollars go elsewhere. Meanwhile their ability to commute means they soak up all the higher paying jobs then spend their salaries in the county or in Mississippi, leaching money away from the city. Anyway, I'll stop before this becomes a sociology paper, but yeah. Sad. I wish I could say this surprised me, but it doesn’t. I used to live in Memphis. The crime rate there is appalling. Not just hate crimes, but all crimes. I vividly remember the string of kidnappings on campus when I went to school there. I’d be curious how the statistics stack up proportionally off hate crimes versus other crimes compared to other large cities. Memphis has a lot of issues with poverty and despair, caused in large part by flight of rich (white) folks to the suburbs, resulting in infrastructure issues at every level within the city itself since their tax dollars go elsewhere. Meanwhile their ability to commute means they soak up all the higher paying jobs then spend their salaries in the county or in Mississippi, leaching money away from the city.

Anyway, I’ll stop before this becomes a sociology paper, but yeah. Sad.

]]> By: bastard.logic http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/12/28/a-call-to-action-on-trans-rights-in-tennessee/#comment-218839 bastard.logic Mon, 29 Dec 2008 00:59:15 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/?p=10447#comment-218839 <strong>PSA: A call for action on trans rights in Tennessee...</strong> by matttbastard Via The Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition: For Immediate Release: Dated December 27, 2008 Another Transgender Woman Shot in Memphis On Christmas Eve, a Memphis television station reported the shooting of Leeneshia Edwards in Mem... PSA: A call for action on trans rights in Tennessee…

by matttbastard
Via The Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition:
For Immediate Release: Dated December 27, 2008
Another Transgender Woman Shot in Memphis
On Christmas Eve, a Memphis television station reported the shooting of Leeneshia Edwards in Mem…

]]> By: the national gadfly http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/12/28/a-call-to-action-on-trans-rights-in-tennessee/#comment-218829 the national gadfly Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:56:20 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/?p=10447#comment-218829 It breaks my heart more and more as I grow older, to see the brutality of ignorance. -gadfly It breaks my heart more and more as I grow older, to see the brutality of ignorance.

-gadfly

]]> By: Jovan1984 http://www.feministe.us/blog/archives/2008/12/28/a-call-to-action-on-trans-rights-in-tennessee/#comment-218828 Jovan1984 Sun, 28 Dec 2008 22:46:57 +0000 http://www.feministe.us/blog/?p=10447#comment-218828 This is yet another reason why we need a federal hate crimes law. This is yet another reason why we need a federal hate crimes law.

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