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7 results foundAuthor: Moumneh, Rasha Title: “They Hunt Us Down for Fun”: Discrimination and Police Violence Against Transgender Women in Kuwait Summary: In 2007 the Kuwaiti parliament outlawed “imitating the opposite sex”, paving the way for police to arbitrarily detain, torture, and sexually harass and abuse transgender women in Kuwait with impunity. Despite a formal state recognition of Gender Identity Disorder, arrests of transgender women continue unabated. The police often take advantage of the law to blackmail transgender women for sex, and redress for police abuse is difficult, if not impossible, for fear of reprisal and re-arrest. The law does not criminalize any specific act or behavior, but rather an appearance whose interpretation is left entirely up to the whims of the police, giving them free reign to decide who is breaking the law and how it is broken. This report documents the abuse, violence, and persecution faced by transgender women at the hands of the police as well as the discrimination they face on a daily basis as a result of this law. Details: New York: Human Rights Watch, 2012. 73p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed January 17, 2012 at: http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/kuwait0112ForUpload.pdf Year: 2012 Country: Kuwait URL: http://www.hrw.org/sites/default/files/reports/kuwait0112ForUpload.pdf Shelf Number: 123645 Keywords: Bias CrimesHate CrimesPolice Use of ForceSexual AbuseSexual AssaultSexual HarassmentSexual ViolenceTransgenderViolence Against Women (Kuwait) |
Author: Grant, Jaime M. Title: Injustice at Every Turn: A Report of the National Transgender Discrimination Survey Summary: This study brings to light what is both patently obvious and far too often dismissed from the human rights agenda. Transgender and gender non-conforming people face injustice at every turn: in childhood homes, in school systems that promise to shelter and educate, in harsh and exclusionary workplaces, at the grocery store, the hotel front desk, in doctors’ offices and emergency rooms, before judges and at the hands of landlords, police officers, health care workers and other service providers. Hundreds of dramatic findings on the impact of anti-transgender bias are presented in this report. In many cases, a series of bias-related events lead to insurmountable challenges and devastating outcomes for study participants. It is part of social and legal convention in the United States to discriminate against, ridicule, and abuse transgender and gender non-conforming people within foundational institutions such as the family, schools, the workplace and health care settings, every day. Instead of recognizing that the moral failure lies in society’s unwillingness to embrace different gender identities and expressions, society blames transgender and gender non-conforming people for bringing the discrimination and violence on themselves. Nearly every system and institution in the United States, both large and small, from local to national, is implicated by this data. Medical providers and health systems, government agencies, families, businesses and employers, schools and colleges, police departments, jail and prison systems—each of these systems and institutions is failing daily in its obligation to serve transgender and gender non-conforming people, instead subjecting them to mistreatment ranging from commonplace disrespect to outright violence, abuse and the denial of human dignity. The consequences of these widespread injustices are human and real, ranging from unemployment and homelessness to illness and death. This report is a call to action for all of us, especially for those who pass laws and set policies and practices, whose action or continued inaction will make a significant difference between the current climate of discrimination and violence and a world of freedom and equality. And everyone else, from those who drive buses or teach our children to those who sit on the judicial bench or write prescriptions, must also take up the call for human rights for transgender and gender non-conforming people, and confront this pattern of abuse and injustice. Details: Washington, DC: National Center for Transgender Equality and National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, 2011. 228p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed March 2, 2012 at http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/reports/reports/ntds_full.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.thetaskforce.org/downloads/reports/reports/ntds_full.pdf Shelf Number: 124359 Keywords: Bias CrimesDiscriminationTransgender |
Author: Gorton, Donald Title: Anti-Transgender Hate Crimes: The Challenge for Law Enforcement Summary: The Commonwealth of Massachusetts has since 2001 recognized gender-identity-bias as a motive for crime to be tracked and reported by law enforcement. However, to date, no antitransgender hate crimes have appeared in the official Massachusetts Annual Report on Hate Crimes. With the exception of the Metropolitan Police Department in Washington, D.C., virtually no police departments in the United States have ever reported occurrences of hate crimes against transgender individuals. Existing data collection by LGBT advocacy organizations conflates information about the characteristics of hate crimes against transgender people with data on the more numerous occurrences of hate crimes motivated by bias against gays, lesbians, and bisexuals. The best existing data come from a handful of self-report surveys focused on violence against transgender people, but research has not addressed dimensions of the problem most relevant to law enforcement needs. A self-report Internet-based survey was conducted using a convenience sample of victims of anti-transgender violence recruited through the MTPC and its contacts. Surveyed were the aspects of anti-transgender crimes identified as relevant for purposes of hate crimes reporting under Massachusetts law. 32 individuals responded and described the circumstances of one or more acts of anti-transgender violence that they had suffered. While results from a small convenience sample will not support conclusions, three provisional findings are warranted given corroboration through other social science resources. First, anti-transgender crimes go largely unreported to law enforcement agencies. Victims fear the possibility of physical or verbal abuse by law enforcement personnel and doubt that reporting will lead to favorable law enforcement outcomes. Second, anti-transgender bias expressed through violence is rooted in gender ideology which regards gender expression as acceptable only to the extent it adheres to binary patterns. While anti-transgender crimes often present sexual-orientation-related bias indicators, homophobia and prejudice against transgender people are analytically distinct albeit related phenomena. Third, anti-transgender victimization includes an unusually high incidence of sexual violence as compared to hate crimes generally. In addition, existing information suggests the possibility that anti-transgender violence (short of murder) may be more brutal than other hate crimes, but this hypothesis has not yet been proven. There are a number of steps available to policymakers, law enforcement personnel, academics, and advocates to improve the interdiction and deterrence of anti-transgender violence. Better information needs to be developed about gender-identity-related crimes, with a view to assisting police in detecting, classifying, reporting and clearing individual cases. Laws prescribing heightened penalties for hate crimes must include gender-identity bias as an enumerated category. Police need to be trained in recognizing prejudice against transgender people and following protocols for hate crimes investigation and reporting attuned to the particular characteristics of anti-transgender violence. Police departments should actively strive to build the trust and cooperation which will induce transgender victims to report episodes of violence in higher numbers. Transgender victims of hate crime in turn need to step forward to report crime occurrences, despite concerns about secondary victimization. Finally, larger social change is needed to deconstruct rigid gender role conventions, the perceived violation of which can be an impetus to violence. Details: Boston: Gay and Lesbian Anti-Violence Fund, Inc., db/a The Anti-Violence Project of Massachusetts, 2011. 51p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed October 28, 2013 at: http://www.masstpc.org/pubs/3party/AVP-anti_trans_hate_crimes.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.masstpc.org/pubs/3party/AVP-anti_trans_hate_crimes.pdf Shelf Number: 131503 Keywords: Bias-Motivated Crimes Hate Crimes (Massachusetts, U.S.) Transgender |
Author: Hearts on a Wire Collective Title: This is a Prison: Glitter is Not Allowed. Experiences of Trans and Gender Variant People in Pennsylvania's Prison Systems Summary: The inspiration for this report grew from our own experiences and the stories our friends told us. Since 2007, Hearts on a Wire has been building a movement to address the policing and imprisonment of our trans and gender variant communities across Pennsylvania. Hearts on a Wire is connected to transgender and gender variant (T/GV) individuals who are incarcerated, detained, and recently released. Accounts of prison conditions from these contacts show the intensity of discrimination, abuse, medical neglect, and punitive isolation that our communities face on the inside. Incarcerated T/GV individuals report dismissal, intimidation, or retaliation when attempting to file grievances. In response to these injustices, formerly incarcerated T/GV Philadelphians and their allies began a conversation about ways to address these issues. Chief among the concerns raised were the ways that prisons remove incarcerated people from their support networks and communities. Breaking the isolation of our incarcerated community members has been a critical step in addressing health and safety issues from the outside. Out of a desire to meet these needs, a network grew and became Hearts on a Wire. The group's first project was to gather community members on the outside to make and send Valentines to T/GV people incarcerated across Pennsylvania. The event was an opportunity for formerly incarcerated people and those with friends and family members inside to discuss how prisons affected our lives and the lives of our loved ones. Hearts on a Wire has held art-making and letter-writing events to build a network with T/GV community members locked in prisons around the state. Additionally, the group tries to respond to urgent situations, such as incidents where our members have been placed in the hole - or have endured abuse within their institutions. In their letters, incarcerated individuals highlighted the critical health and safety issues they face. From this correspondence, incarcerated and outside Hearts on a Wire members determined the need to create this research project. Details: Philadelphia, PA: Hearts on a Wire Collective, 2011. 75p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 28, 2014 at: http://www.galaei.org/documents/thisisaprison.pdf Year: 2011 Country: United States URL: http://www.galaei.org/documents/thisisaprison.pdf Shelf Number: 132201 Keywords: Gays, Lesbians and BisexualsInmatesPrisonersTransgender |
Author: National Center for Transgender Equality Title: LGBTQ People Behind Bars Summary: JAILS AND PRISONS ARE TRAUMATIZING AND OFTEN DANGEROUS places, especially for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) people and anyone who doesn't fit gender stereotypes. In a country that incarcerates more of its people than any other large nation in the world, LGBTQ people are more likely to end up behind bars and more likely to face abuse behind bars than the general population. Being LGBTQ in a U.S. jail or prison often means daily humiliation, physical and sexual abuse, and the fear that it will get worse if you complain. Many LGBTQ people are placed in solitary confinement for months or years just because of who they are. Fortunately, the movement to end these harmful practices - and combat mass incarceration as a whole - is growing. Grassroots movements challenging mass incarceration and brutal prison conditions are gaining steam, courts are increasingly recognizing legal protections for transgender and LGBTQ prisoners, and the federal government adopted landmark regulations, known as the PREA Standards, that provide critical protections for LGBTQ people and others vulnerable to violence in prisons. More and more corrections agencies are paying attention - and many are now adopting new policies aimed at protecting LGBTQ prisoners. While there is still a huge amount of work to be done to reduce the harms that LGBTQ people and others face behind bars - and to keep them out of prisons and jails in the first place - now is a better time than ever for our communities to press for change. This overview provides an introduction to the needs and experience of many LGBTQ prisoners, as well as the legal protections they have under the Constitution, the Prison Rape Elimination Act, and other laws and standards. Details: Washington, DC: National Center for Transgender Equality, 2018. 22p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 7, 2019 at: https://transequality.org/sites/default/files/docs/resources/TransgenderPeopleBehindBars.pdf Year: 2018 Country: United States URL: https://www.prisonpolicy.org/research/lgbt/ Shelf Number: 156223 Keywords: Bisexual Gay Jails Lesbian Prison Rape Elimination Act Prisoners Prisons Queer Sexual Abuse Transgender |
Author: Global Network of Sex Work Projects Title: The Impact of Stigma and Discrimination on Key Populations and Their Families Summary: The right to found and raise a family is a fundamental human right. Many members of key populations (gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men, people who use drugs, sex workers, and transgender people) become or wish to become parents in their lifetime. However, widespread societal stigma, compounded by punitive legal frameworks, severely impede key populations' rights to parent free of arbitrary or unlawful interference and discrimination. Details: London: Global Network of Sex Work Projects, International Network of People who use Drugs, and MPact: Global Action for Gay Men's Health and Rights, 2018. 34p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 17, 2019 at: https://www.nswp.org/sites/nswp.org/files/stigma_discrim_inpud_mpact_nswp_-_2018_0.pdf Year: 2018 Country: International URL: https://www.nswp.org/resource/policy-brief-the-impact-stigma-and-discrimination-key-populations-and-their-families Shelf Number: 156466 Keywords: Discrimination Human Rights Prostitutes Sex Workers Social Stigma Transgender |
Author: Global Network of Sex Work Projects Title: The Homophobia and Transphobia Experienced by LGBT Sex Workers Summary: Introduction: Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people experience targeted homophobia and transphobia at every level - including legal, political and social. For sex workers who are LGBT, discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation and gender identity adds to and intensifies the discrimination they experience as sex workers, who are subjected to a distinct set of violations. The dual identities of LGBT sex workers therefore have the potential to further marginalise individuals and render them more vulnerable to increased levels of violence, human rights' abuses, and decreased access to services and justice. This Briefing Paper documents the stigma and discrimination experienced by LGBT sex workers and highlights differences in their experiences when compared with other members of their respective communities. Recommendations for addressing the double stigma and discrimination experienced by those at the intersection of the sex work and LGBT communities follow. This paper is a collaborative effort between MPact Global Action for Gay Men's Health and Rights (formerly MSMGF) and the Global Network of Sex Work Projects (NSWP). Details: Edinburgh, Scotland: Global Network of Sex Work Projects, 2017. 18p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed June 27, 2019 at: https://www.nswp.org/sites/nswp.org/files/bp_homophobia_transphobia_mpact_nswp_-_2018.pdf Year: 2017 Country: International URL: https://www.nswp.org/resource/briefing-paper-the-homophobia-and-transphobia-experienced-lgbt-sex-workers Shelf Number: 156568 Keywords: Bisexual Discrimination Gay Human Rights Abuses Human Trafficking LGBTQI Prostitution Sex Workers Transgender |