Eva Longoria's transgender employee brutally beaten in hate crime

[kilakali]

http://www.examiner.com/article/eva-...ten-hate-crime

[runround04]

That article used the terms "He/Him" pretty often. SMH


Hopefully they'll find who find who did this to HER and throw the book at em.

[kilakali]

Mostly from the family...here is the local TV news broadcast.

http://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2013/...-a-hate-crime/

[Rabbiteyes]

Ugg this is horrible ~_~ I live near there ~_~

At least I tend to only go to the same places and not walk around much ~_~

[giovanni_hotel]

From Radaroline, SMDH;

"Diego’s sister Virginia told CBSLA that Victor, who is gay and transgendered, had just left work Thursday evening and was dressed up prior to the ambush on Hollywood Blvd."


Comments like this are the problem.
When even close loved ones don't understand how calling someone both 'gay' and 'transgendered' is contradictory, it's easy to understand why so many people think gay/CD/DQ/tranny are interchangeable terms.


Apparently some guy(s) got offended with themselves for finding her attractive and tried to beat her to death.

[nysprod]

After looking at a few more articles, it looks like the attackers knew the victim from the restaurant and then followed Victor before attacking...hopefully, there are security cameras in the restaurant and on Hollywood Blvd.

[MrsKellyPierce]

ACK "Gay and Transgendered" what the hell

[nysprod]

ACK "Gay and Transgendered" what the hell

I'm with you Kelly but one can't expect mainstream media to get this right...more important for now is that the police treat this as a hate crime and work diligently to bring those responsible to justice.

[MacShreach]

I'm with you Kelly but one can't expect mainstream media to get this right...more important for now is that the police treat this as a hate crime and work diligently to bring those responsible to justice.

No. We very much should expect the mainstream media to get this right, and when they don't they need to be told. All newspapers have feedback blogs and before that there were letters to the editor. I don't pretend to be an expert on the US legal system but I know hate crime is recognised and was a factor in the Gwen Araujo case. That being so, those here, who live in the paper's circulation areas, should fire in a pile of 'irate of nevermindwhere' letters and emails.

Journos are by and large just working stiffs with no great axe to grind and most have seen some pretty horrible stuff (I'm not talking about the big-name syndicated rent-an-opinions, but the people running newsdesks everywhere.) In general, they respond fairly to politely put and reasonable comment on what they publish, from their readers.

[MrsKellyPierce]

Or you can you just attack them..I went after this author on twitter

And I asked her to define what a transsexual is...

She said I don't care about ones sexuality

When they do this..they basically promote trans-abuse

Many reporters now a days are better at being conscious of the terminology and even if their names not changed going by the name they chose.

She couldn't define transsexualism to me..this is why reporters shouldn't write things they don't know about!

Because like politics reporters give people their thoughts...

Some people who don't know politics will pretend if they read an article...

What they put out changes views

They have a lot more power..she is basically calling her a crossdressing gay man.

And even said to me as long as her penis is in tact she is a man