https://thehill.com/latino/418277-trans-woman-was-beaten-in-ice-custody-before-she-died-report
The autopsy shows that Hernández was likely physically abused while under ICE custody at a privately operated detention center in New Mexico. She appears to have died after several days of untreated dehydration, according to the online news outlet.
Hernández's autopsy showed "deep bruising" on her hands and abdomen, trauma on her body "indicative of blows and/or kicks" and "possible strikes with a blunt object." She also sustained wrist wounds "typical of handcuff injuries."
Forensic pathologist Kris Sperry wrote that Hernández developed "severe diarrhea and vomiting" while she was detained in Cibola County Correctional Center.
“There she developed severe diarrhea and vomiting over the course of several days, and finally was emergently hospitalized, then transported to Lovelace Medical Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she remained critically ill until her death," Sperry wrote, according to the Daily Beast.
Sperry wrote that Hernández did not receive medical care for her intensifying "diarrhea and vomiting episodes" for multiple days "until she was gravely ill."
At the time of Hernández's death in May, ICE said in a statement that "comprehensive medical care is provided from the moment detainees arrive and throughout the entirety of their stay."
When this is all over we're going to have a lot to answer for as a nation.
the ICE needs to be deleted and something more humane take its place. something that isn't purely preujdice
I don't think that ICE should be abolished or anything, but holy shit the people responsible for this (and other incidents of mistreatment) need to be found and have the book thrown at them.
If they die under your custody due to your negligence, it's just murder.
The hate for transgender people in particular is much more then the rest of the LGBT spectrum. It's so deep and virulent.
Unfortunately, it is ICE itself that is allowing and covering up all these incidents. The organization itself can't be seen as blameless -- they are part of the reason these incidents are occurring to begin with, starting with them not vetting the people they hire.
Rest in peace, sister.
So ICE is staffed by the same sick fucks that raped and sexually torture those Abu Ghraib detainees it seems.
Yeah tell me about it. There is actually a scary large amount of the LGBT community that thinks trans people should be dropped because we hold back the LGB or some shit like that.
People like that are the ones that don’t belong in the community.
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Take a look at #DropTheT, shit was weird.
The more I see of the world and the more I pay attention to things, the more I realize the frightening amount of people who grow up but don't mature.
I've seen several instances of "pro-LGBT" conservatives trashing transpeople. When they're reminded what the T stands for, they either distance themselves or stop responding.
You even frequently get gay people and feminists lashing out at trans people.
It's really bad.
ironically none of them would have their rights had it not been for transwomen fighting the cops at Stonewall.
Rest in peace.
Another killed by the state
Seriously it cannot be overstated how deep the sheer hate and disgust and loathing people feel for transgender folks. Many feel a deep sense of wrongness when they see a transgender person, it fucks with their
minds.
Doesn't mean shit to them. They just want to know so they can grab the fresh popcorn and a seat.
What the actual fuck, I was better off not knowing that this hashtag existed.
How the fuck do you go from :
"Hey, i'm gay, but cis peoples hates me, oh and also Trans are hated too so let's be allies" to
"Hey i'm gay, i'm now mostly accepted by everyone, but ewww, trans peoples are icky"
Those kind of peoples are truly disgusting, and a disgrace to the LGBT community.
ALSO DID THEY ACTUALLY USE, UN-IRONICALLY "TRANS-WASHING"
10/10 I'm fucking mad
Tbqh I think you've got to be a special brand of evil to even work for ICE at this point. Theres been plenty of time for the good people there to find a new job, but now I'm convinced anyone who works there does so because they're white supremacists
I really hope these droptheT fucks are a small, loud minority of the LGBT community. I looked it up and it makes me want to 1.scream, 2.give up, and 3.die
I think the acceptance of Gay people has been a long, gradual process. Putting trans people in the national political rhetoric came very quickly after Obergefell v. Hodges, and basically nobody was prepared for it. All of a sudden, we were talking about trans people using their preferred bathrooms, having their gender identity recognized on gov. docs, etc. overnight. Trans people/gender identity are very poorly understood by most people, including gay people. It wasn't until a couple years ago that it became unacceptable to make transphobic jokes, etc. and people are still quite fixated on the reassignment surgery aspect of trans people as the be-all-end-all definition of "transitioned" or "not transitioned".
I'm not excusing it, but it's just that people have been fighting for gay acceptance in national level politics for like 30 years, but trans acceptance is a VERY new thing to national politic
And here it is again, right beneath the surface.
What upbringing do you need to have to go "UG THEY DIFFERENT I HATE THEM"
Like I didn't even really know what Trans people were or that they existed until like 2012, when I was 19. A trans woman came out shortly after I met her in my college class, and aside from a "oh, that's different." reaction I didn't really think that much of it. I googled a little to understand it but aside from that it hasn't really affected me.
I just don't understand someone who'd get up in arms over Trans people existing.
It's a mix of several factors
-Folks might just find transgender people physically ugly, wrong, or offensive
-Folks may find it offensive due to rejecting the entire idea someone can not like they gender they were born (overlaps with thinking sex and gender are the same)
-Folks may think transgender people are mentally ill
-Compounding point three folks may think transgender people mutilate their bodies through hormones and surgery
-Believe that acceptance of transgender people is a "win" for the Left and SJWs
-Good old fashioned tribalism, rejecting the Other and the Different
trump should be deported to hague after this is said and done. They're entirely too casual about people dying in their care for this to be anything but intentional.
God, I hate that so many topics in the US and abroad are treated like sports
Does that Hague invasion act apply for former members of the government?
We learn how we're expected to behave and treat other people through observation while growing up. If you grow up in an environment where men and women are strictly separate categories of people, where you're expected to behave as a man or a woman depending on which role you're assigned, the existence of transgender people feels like a violation of those rules. It forces you to question things you never really had to question before.
It's like how the existence of atheists can make religious people uncomfortable. If you build your life on the concept that the only way to be a good person is through religion, then the existence of a good person who isn't religious is a direct attack on the principles that govern how you live your life.
Most people aren't equipped to deal with those questions. So they react by attacking what they see as the source of the discomfort. A man defines himself as straight. He's attracted to a trans woman. This leads to a crisis of identity. Unable to resolve how he feels with how he believes he should feel, he blames the internal conflict on the 'cause', and lashes out. This sort of thing happens all the time.
It's kind of the default human attitude
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