Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
Oh I'm sure your a real flower child in person too. She didn't like the way she was being treated. Sometimes people act up when they are oppressed.
But how was she being oppressed? Also why do some people feel that if they are being oppressed the best way to counter this is by being obnoxious?
Originally posted by Surtur
But how was she being oppressed? Also why do some people feel that if they are being oppressed the best way to counter this is by being obnoxious?
Because it has worked in the past. Loudly and repeatedly demanding your rights (which is considered obnoxious by people who prefer the status quo) works.
"Last night I spoke out to demand respect and acknowledgement of our gender expression and the release of the estimated 75 transgender immigrants in detention right now,”
Obvious question, are they being held specifically because they're transgender, or are they being held like all the other illegal immigrants because they're breaking some law?
"ndeed, LGBTQ immigrant detainees are uniquely vulnerable to abuse, including sexual assault, while in custody. Between October 2009 and March 2013, 40 percent of sexual assault allegations went unreported by federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in detention centers, a Government Accountability Office report found. In prison settings, nonhetereosexual prison inmates report sexual assault at higher rates than heterosexual inmates, a finding backed up by the Bureau of Justice Statistics which found that almost 40 percent of transgender inmates in prisons are sexually assaulted. And it took nine years after the implementation of the Prison Rape Elimination Act for guidelines to include LGBT immigrant detainees protections, such as detaining individuals according to their gender identity.
Some facilities place LGBT immigrants in administrative segregation, or solitary confinement, in an attempt to protect them from the general population, a 2013 Center for American Progress report stated. There are also cases where transgender women are housed in men’s detention facilities. In one high-profile case, Marichuy Leal Gamino spoke out about how she was subjected to “bullying, lewd comments, and threats of rape” and, even after she was raped, detention officers reportedly told her to “deal with it.” Meanwhile, Nicoll Hernández-Polanco, a transgender woman from Guatemala, was forced to shower with other detainees and was also sexually assaulted, Tucson Weekly reported.
LGBT and HIV-positive detainees also receive inadequate medicare care in immigration detention facilities. In 2007, an HIV-positive female transgender Mexican immigrant “died while shackled to a bed” after officials refused to give her medical attention and her medication, the Washington Post reported at the time. Transgender detainees have also noted that they are sometimes denied hormone treatment, in violation of the Eight Amendment’s requirement that they receive “adequate medicare care” in detention.
And even before they wind up in custody, the ICE agency consistently discriminates against LGBT individuals during detention decisions. A Center for American Progress Freedom of Information Act report found that in 70 percent of cases, LGBT individuals were recommended release or provided release as an option. But because ICE officers have the final say, they choose to detain LGBT people more than two-thirds of the time in cases where the recommended guidelines were for release. The CAP report also found that ICE overrode recommendations for release in “7.6 percent of cases for the general population. The rate for LGBT detainees was more than twice this, at 19 percent.”
One LGBT asylum seeker commented that he had “the most traumatic experience” inside an immigrant detention center. “I came here to beg you for my safety,” Khayal said after he fled a former Soviet Union country that criminalizes being LGBT. “When you put me in jail and keep me when I didn’t do anything, when I didn’t commit any crime, when you put me in jail and keep me in a freezing room like a refrigerator. You don’t expect that from this. I kind of expect that from Azerbaijan police.”
Earlier this week, Reps. Mike Honda (D-CA), Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), and about 28 other members of Congress sent a letter to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson on Tuesday asking his department to release LGTBQ detainees and to consider alternatives to detention or use parole.
“It is heartbreaking to see how raising these issues were received by the president and by those in attendance,” Gutiérrez said. “In the tradition of how Pride started, I interrupted his speech because it is time for our issues and struggles to be heard. I stood for what is right. Instead of silencing our voices, President Obama can also stand and do the right thing for our immigrant LGBTQ community.”"
Yeah, I read article about the unique issues transgender inmates can have while in prison. The same issues can happen to transgender American citizens in prison(Watch Lockup). America needs a massive prison reform in how we treat our inmates, but that's another issue.
But that didn't answer my question. Are they in prison specifically because they're trans? Another question, why should these 75 illegal immigrants be set free and not the rest?
Side question: Why do you care now when your general view on illegal immigrants is "they're breaking the law, deport their asses back".
Originally posted by Time-Immemorial
He holds back LBTG and trans immigrants in detention.
So just to be clear, he doesn't hold heterosexual immigrants in detention? Since I have the sneaking suspicious that our president isn't specifically singling out only gay or lesbian or trans immigrants and doing nothing to the straight ones.