Memphis doesn't seem like a safe place to be transgendered, especially if you are black.: eriktrips

Memphis doesn't seem like a safe place to be transgendered, especially if you are black.

Just passing along some news and a few addresses to write to. The news stories are a mixed bag as far as pronouns and recognition of gender presentation go, but you'll get the gist of what is (not) happening in Memphis in regard to hate crimes against transgendered women.

Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition Responds to Another Anti-Trans Hate Crime in Memphis

Transgender woman murdered in Memphis

Police explore motives in shooting death of transgendered prostitute--this one is particularly difficult to deal with in the pronoun department: does the person in that photo look like "Rodney" to you??

Family of Murdered Transgender Seeks Justice--also badly written but interesting in the degree that it shows both the family's denial and outrage.

Larry A. Godwin
Director of Police
Memphis Police Department
201 Poplar Ave.
Memphis, TN
901-545-5700
http://www.memphispolice.org/

William L. Gibbons
District Attorney General
Shelby County District Attorney's Office
201 Poplar Avenue, Third Floor
Memphis, Tennessee 38103
901-545-5900
http://www.scdag.com/

Willie W. Herenton
Mayor of Memphis
City Hall
125 N. Main St. Room 700
Memphis, Tn 38103
(901) 576-6007
mayor@memphistn.gov

Tennessee Transgender Political Coalition (TTPC)
P.O. Box 92335
Nashville, TN 37209
http://ttgpac.com
TTGPAC@aol.com
(615)293-6199
(615)353-1834 fax

Memphis doesn't seem like a safe place to be transgendered, especially if you are black.