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Even Among the Left-Leaning LA-Area Community, Things Remain Tragic for Clearly Transgender Women. But There Are Reasons to Keep Going.
The United States is not one blockade away in terms of sufficient understanding of transgender women like myself. We’re around 4.3. I have that estimate & takeaway after what has happened, you ask?
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After I’ve been stalked twice, verbally abused eight times, sexually assaulted twice and harassed 27 times (17 times sexually). I’ve endured emotional abuse four times and had a gun brandished in front of me. Also, I’ve been discriminated against 87 times. (That includes by X, on reddit, in speech pathology, in pharmaceuticals and by Upwork and a Sephora employee; surgeon’s offices and in work; four times in hair removal; nine times in transportation; and five times in shelter.) Also, I’ve endured hate speech, deliberate misgenderings (hate incidents in California, where I am) and other hate incidents 175 times. (Yes — I’ve been a good journalist and been counting.)
And that’s just among the left-leaning Los Angeles-area community, in the past 23.5 months, after I came to the area as a gender refugee, seeking access to gender-affirming care.
Zero results have resulted from seeking relief.
Nichelle Christopherson is a former St. John’s Community Health lawyer. She was given a Stop the Hate grant to help with victims of hate incidents.
She refused to litigate for me. It seemed clear she litigated for others.
I told her my dead name. (My best estimate why: I felt immense trust in her because I didn’t even consider that the attorney wouldn’t use the grant to litigate. After having felt great warmth in my heart in thinking I would finally receive support.)
Christopherson told me to not contact her anymore when I asked her for proof of a claim she made and pointed out that she said she uses the grant to litigate.
Further, Tim Frederick, a special investigator in the City of Los Angeles Civil + Human Rights and Equity Department, dismissed smoking-gun…
