Trans people (especially trans women) are framed as the ultimate in "subversive," which I think played into the media coverage of Chelsea Manning. Any time they can link "transgressive of gender and sexuality norms" with "subversive of the rule of law," they will.
And then it comes into the "defenses" to violence, even murder -- that trans women are "tricking women" when they use the same bathrooms (are really "men" who are using a ruse of womanhood to get into women's spaces), that trans women "lie to straight men" and "trick them" into "gay sex," so murders are both payback and a way to reestablish "masculinity" through violence. There are some who seem to see mere existence as a trans woman as an act of violence upon them, especially targeting trans women of color.
It's also important to note that in MA, there is still no public accommodations protection for trans people (bathrooms, hotels, hospitals, shelters, restaurants, public transportation...).
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Date: 2013-11-21 02:35 am (UTC)And then it comes into the "defenses" to violence, even murder -- that trans women are "tricking women" when they use the same bathrooms (are really "men" who are using a ruse of womanhood to get into women's spaces), that trans women "lie to straight men" and "trick them" into "gay sex," so murders are both payback and a way to reestablish "masculinity" through violence. There are some who seem to see mere existence as a trans woman as an act of violence upon them, especially targeting trans women of color.
It's also important to note that in MA, there is still no public accommodations protection for trans people (bathrooms, hotels, hospitals, shelters, restaurants, public transportation...).
My two cents, anyway.