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Reading “Mandating Inclusion: Critical Trans Perspectives on Domestic and Sexual Violence Advocacy” by Jordan et al, Violence Against Women 2020 vol 26. CW: anti-LGBTQ violence, violence against TWOC.
CW: anti-trans violence.
“The NCAVP has reported an annual increase in the number of homicides of trans people in the US every year since 2013, & the vast majority of victims are young Black & Latina trans women.” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077801219836728
“The NCAVP has reported an annual increase in the number of homicides of trans people in the US every year since 2013, & the vast majority of victims are young Black & Latina trans women.” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077801219836728
CW: anti-trans violence.
“Homicides involving trans victims often go unreported and remain unsolved; however, existing sources point to the significant role of domestic & sexual violence in the reported fatalities.” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077801219836728
“Homicides involving trans victims often go unreported and remain unsolved; however, existing sources point to the significant role of domestic & sexual violence in the reported fatalities.” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077801219836728
On social stigma as an IPV tactic against trans people:
- Threatening to out someone
- Misgendering
- Controlling someone’s gender expression
- Denying access time affirming medical treatment
- Using trans identity against someone in custody/with LE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077801219836728
- Threatening to out someone
- Misgendering
- Controlling someone’s gender expression
- Denying access time affirming medical treatment
- Using trans identity against someone in custody/with LE https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077801219836728
On social/structural inequity leading to 
vulnerability for trans people:
- rates housing insecurity/homelessness
- economic discrimination
- reliance on survival sex & poor conditions in sex work
- disability
- incarceration https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077801219836728
vulnerability for trans people:-
rates housing insecurity/homelessness-
economic discrimination-
reliance on survival sex & poor conditions in sex work-
disability-
incarceration https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077801219836728
“Trans survivors of IPV often avoid gender-based DV services in anticipation of misunderstandings or mistreatment & may perceive these services as inaccessible or irrelevant to their situation.”
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077801219836728
See @FORGEforward for trans-specific training.
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077801219836728
See @FORGEforward for trans-specific training.
“Passed as part of a major crime bill, VAWA consolidated significant state resources for a once grassroots & decentralized feminist response... & in so doing changed anti-violence discourses & strategies toward greater alignment w/ neoliberal governance.” https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1077801219836728
Five themes re: trans survivors
1) Trans survivors often fear or are resistant to using criminal legal system (or to receiving medical treatment that was not sensitized, so people just stay home, don’t get treatment, don’t report #HEALIHPToT). Especially important among TPOC.
1) Trans survivors often fear or are resistant to using criminal legal system (or to receiving medical treatment that was not sensitized, so people just stay home, don’t get treatment, don’t report #HEALIHPToT). Especially important among TPOC.
2) Trans survivors experience explicit exclusions & discriminatory impacts in gender-based DVSA models. Some DVSA replicate barriers even when trying to be inclusive, like with gendered language and imagery.
3) Agencies may fail trans survivors when they use a checklist or competency approach to inclusion without engaging in holistic changes in framework & perception.
4) The dominant analysis of GBV is largely insufficient for understanding the complex root causes of anti-trans violence & multiple layers of harm trans survivors experience.
5) DVSA agencies might be inclined to pass on trans violence initiatives to already overburdened and underfunded LGBTQ programs.
