Transgender Woman Stabbed To Death In Philadelphia

[marym625]

Source: Buzz Feed

London Chanel, a 21-year-old transgender woman, was stabbed to death in North Philadelphia early Monday, a city official told BuzzFeed News.

Chanel is the eighth transgender woman of color killed in the United States this year — a trend that anti-violence advocates have called an epidemic. And as in many of the cases, Chanel was misgendered in early reports.

“There has been an immediate outcry from the community who knew her,” said Nellie Fitzpatrick, director of the Mayor's Office of LGBT Affairs for the City of Philadelphia. “I was receiving reports from the community that the deceased was transgender and needed to be referred to appropriately as a woman with female pronouns.”

NBC10 initially reported, based on interviews with Philadelphia police, that the victim was a "man" stabbed inside a vacant North Philadelphia home. “Her name was London Chanel," one of the commenters on the article said. "Please correct the terrible reporting in this article immediately. Black trans women are already at extreme risk of violence, it doesn't help to hide their murders by using the wrong names and genders in shoddy news coverage.”


Read more: http://www.buzzfeed.com/dominicholden/transgender-woman-stabbed-to-death-in-philadelphia

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The hate that transgender people have to face must be unbearable.

Shame on NBC News for playing into the hatred

My deepest condolences to London Chanel's friends and family that cared about her. What a horrid death

[AuntPatsy]

1. Horrific, never ends.

[Omaha Steve]

2. A candle in the wind...

[bigworld]

3. Channel 10 was only reporting what police had told them

and corrected their information when they were notified. I don't see them as doing anything particularly wrong.

[marym625]

4. Where does it say that?

I read a few articles and I don't see anything saying that. They knew she was transgender.


Let me clarify. The cops said "man" but knew she was a transgender woman. I don't know that the cops didn't also report that part

[KittyWampus]

5. It's in the article YOU posted...

Fitzpatrick said NBC10 apologized and updated the article to use female pronouns after she contacted the television station. Police, meanwhile, told her “any information or briefings from police headquarters would reflect the proper gender identity.”

[marym625]

6. I edited my response

While you were responding.

I don't know that the cops didn't say "man" and transgender. It has been commonplace for those two things to happen and the reports in media to still use the wrong gender

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. ..

[BeanMusical]

8. So sad.

[shenmue]

9. ...

[Behind the Aegis]

10. Once again, the GLBT community is made to suffer.

We are constantly reminded how much we are hated, though not always to this extreme.

[Bluenorthwest]

18. And the DU cohort that both affects great passion about hate crimes toward some groups while

dismissing LGBT rights as 'social issues' and reducing it all to marriage equality will not comment in this thread. It's as predictable as the sunrise.

[glinda]

11. horribly sad

[okasha]

12. ,,,

Safe journey, sister.

[AnotherDreamWeaver]

13. .

[RobinA]

14. Being Stabbed

inside a vacant house in North Philadelphia may not have much, if anything, to do with gender.

[marym625]

15. But reporting that she was a "man" does

[jberryhill]

16. "NBC10 initially reported, based on interviews with Philadelphia police"

What was the condition of the body when it was found? Do you know?

This was a stabbing death.

To put this gently, a "stabbing death" is typically not a single neat puncture wound.

Have you ever attempted to determine the gender of a body that has been mutilated with a knife?

[marym625]

17. No, I have not

But I have written to the police, the mayor's office and the reporter asking what was initially said. If I receive a reply that is contrary to what I said, I will correct

[wordpix]

19. this is horrible, RIP beautiful London

Violence against LGBTs must end. There is so much hatred for no reason.