6/25/14

Trans Latino teen Jane Doe's transfer out of solitary is only a partial victory


Jane Doe, the 16 year old transgender teen , who committed no crime, has been freed from solitary yesterday. This happened because her family, that's us, didn't allow her wrongful imprisonment in solitary to stand.

The Connecticut Department of Children and Families (DCF), her legal guardians since age 5, were literally forced to take action thanks to unrelenting advocacy, legal representation by Aaron Romano, social media and outstanding articles from mainstream newspapers like the Hartford Current, and the New Haven Register.

Janes transfer to the Middletown Albert J. Solnit Psychiatric Center is only slightly better.


According to the Boston Globe DCF Commissioner Joette Katz said

‘‘Given the progress Jane Doe has made, we are convinced that this interim step of placing her today in our program for girls in Middletown is a more appropriate place for her than the adult York Correctional Institution,’’ Katz said in a statement. ‘‘This certainly has been a difficult ordeal for Jane Doe, and I am hopeful that she will continue to heal from the very traumatic experiences she has suffered.’’

Jane's lawyer Aaron Romano is horrified that Commissioner Katz would consider Solitary confinment which is defined as torture, therapeutic!

‘It shocks the conscience that the commissioner makes a claim that jail serves a therapeutic purpose for a child,’’ he said.


Saying Journalist Andy Thibault blew the lid off DCF Commissioner Joette Katz lies regarding the departments treatment of Jane Doe would be a understatement. Thibault nuked DCF with COOL JUSTICE: DCF boss / ex-judge Katz has robitis bad, and that ain’t good.

Thibault then followed up like a bull dog unrelenting hounding Commisioner Katz's every injustice on his blog Cool Justice.








6/23/14

Candle Light Vigil For Yazmin Shancez Draws Hundreds

31-year-old transgender woman Yazmin Shancez's body was found shot and shot and burned beyond recognition behind truck rental business in Fort Myers Florida Thursday.

"While the police aren't calling this a hate crime her family says it took plenty of hate for something like to this to happen" ~ Fox 4 News

200 people came to remember a life ended too soon and way to violently for moral people to comprehend. Picture gallery



Anyone with information is asked to call the Fort Myers Police Department at 239-321-7700, Crime Stoppers at 1-800-780-TIPS or text message C-R-I-M-E-S (274637) Keyword FMPD.








6/22/14

CT. DCF says they will move Trans teen Jane Doe from solitary next week

Jane Doe the Latino transgender child literally thrown away by the Connecticut department of Child and Family services (DCF) may be finally moved from solitary.

Jane has never committed a crime or been convicted of anything that would require her to be imprisoned in solitary. DCF entrusted with her care since age 5 have repeatedly raped and beat her, and when she acted out disregarded her transgender status trying to jail her with men.

When that failed, caught in a lie, they imprisoned her in solitary in a woman's high security facility. Solitary for being trans!

The only crime is how DCF has treated her.

NPR reports : A 16-year-old transgender girl who was placed at York women's prison in April will be moved next week.
The Connecticut Department of Children and Families issued a statement on Friday afternoon that said Jane Doe will be transferred early next week to the Pueblo Unit in Middletown while DCF awaits final approval of a proposed placement in Massachusetts.
Pueblo is a locked unit for girls with serious issues who are in DCF custody. It opened in March and is where advocates say Jane Doe should have been placed. DCF Commissioner Joette Katz had long opposed moving Jane Doe to the facility saying it was inappropriate to serve her needs.
In Friday's statement, DCF said the decision reflects the progress she has made over recent months.
Earlier this year, the agency had gone to court asking a judge to approve the teen's transfer saying she was too dangerous for any DCF facility. The 16-year-old has experienced extensive physical and sexual abuse.


Transgender preacher at the National Catherderal today

Today an event that has sent right wing nuta into a tizzy will transpire at the spired  monument to embedded Demagoguery so revered by haters, the National Cathedral.

Transgender Reverend Dr. Cameron Partridge will be preaching the Episcopal gospel.

Click here to watch the live webcast at 11:15 am Eastern time

Disclaimer. I am a "cradle" Episcopalian baptised and as a youth served as an acolyte, but in my life experiences I've learned that organized religions ultimately end up doing two things. Starting wars and praying for those who died in those wars fighting for them (the working peep) and those opposing them (sic) 'non belivers'. So anyways, have a ball wing nutz, its your house.




6/21/14

Groundhog day for GENDA as the NY Senate FAILS again

The NY Senate has refused to vote on GENDA in what has become an annual denial of transgender rights as dependable as Bill Murry's Groundhog day. The Senate's failure didn't even cause a ripple, googling GENDA only brought one current article. The New York State Assembly has passed GENDA seven times, so like Bill Murry NY is really close on this one, for the seventh time.

More often than not, equality is advanced at the city and county level first. Local politicians are more in tune with business successes as they integrate their companies with superlative LGBT employees. They are thus influenced to change their city's ordinances to include protections for transgender people in hopes of attracting our diverse community.

Such is the case in Nassau NY. Sunday June 22nd The Long Island Transgender Advocacy Coalition (LITAC) will be hosting a march a rally. There will be a number of local legislators on hand.

You can find about it on their Facebook event page.

Lets make this the last Genda Groundhog day.




Transgender escort wanted for murder of trans woman Amelia Lopez Zaguilan


Alejandra Aguilera-Ortega. pictured, is on the run after injecting silicone into the buttocks of transgender woman Amelia Lopez Zaguilan on April 30, 2013.



Last December, a warrant was issued for Aguilara-Ortega's arrest on charges of murder and practicing medicine without a medical certificate.