August 24, 2010
Dear Director Robinson,
Greetings. This letter is a follow up to the meeting on July 6, 2010, at the Houston Covenant House. You informed the attendees that by July 19, 2010, you would provide the Transgender Foundation of America (TFA) with Policies and Procedures as it applies to Intake, Assessment, Placement, and Discipline regarding [...]
Taking the stance that the right to marry should be stripped from transgender citizens, Dave Welch was soundly defeated. After the debate, the FOX Public Opinion Poll results were nothing short of phenomenal.
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Mrs. Araguz has a long history of using her experience as a transgender woman to assist the public to better understand the lives of trans-identified people. These efforts have included appearing on a number of talk shows and working for LGBT publications.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Widow Braves Hostile Court Proceedings
Houston, Texas – July 23, 2010 – Jeers and public threats greeted Mrs. Nikki Araguz outside the Warton County Courthouse today. The Widow of Wharton County firefighter Captain Thomas Araguz, who was killed in the line of duty, was in court for the first hearing in a suit brought [...]
Covenant House (CH) staff plunged this individual into a potentiality dangerous situation. CH staff made the choice to ensure all were aware of this client’s private medical information (GID DX) and then housed her with men. When the men began to verbally abuse this individual and the abuse escalated, CH staff turned a blind eye. Fearing that history was about to repeat itself (that she would soon be assaulted), this individual fled CH and is now living on the streets.
An arrest has been made in last Tuesdays on campus assault of a Houston Community College (HCC) Student. Lance Reyna, a well known leader in the Houston Transgender community, was attacked and robbed at knife point by an individual who yelled “Hey Queer!” before putting Reyna in a headlock and holding a knife to his throat, then beating him and taking his wallet. Lance suffered a concussion and multiple bruises as a result of the attack.
Yesterday afternoon at 1:40 PM, well-known community member Lance Reyna was attacked at knifepoint and left with a concussion. Lance was in the restroom when a black male with a shaved head said in falsetto, “Hey queer!” and put a knife to his throat. The attacker then told Lance to give him his valuables and then began beating Lance to the ground. Once Lance was on the ground, the attacker began kicking Lance in the head.
On Friday, June 11, 2010, a meeting was held at Covenant House to discuss their long-standing practice of refusing to house transgender youth. Those in attendance were Cristan Williams, Executive Director Transgender Foundation of America (TFA); Darin Quintero, Vice-President for Board of Directors of TFA, Jolanda Jones, City of Houston Councilwoman and her aide, Josephine; Houston Covenant House Director/CEO Rhonda Robinson and Josephine Tittsworth with the NASW-TX GLBT Equity Committee. The Director of Covenant House Houston, Rhonda Robinson stated that her position was that Covenant Houston does not refuse services to any child and that all children – even transgender children – are treated with dignity. She went on to state that their unwritten policy is that transgender children are placed according to their anatomical sex and not their gender identity. She went on to admit that Covenant House has no policy whatsoever concerning protecting GLBT youth and that equal treatment is, in fact, discretionary for staff. Council Member Jones took the Covenant House director to task and stated in no uncertain terms that transgender kids need to be housed in the gender they present, that they need to be referred to as the gender they present and that no child should ever be refused services due to their transgender status. Council Member Jones also stated that she knew transgender children were being turned away because the Harris County Juvenile Probation contacted her office after Covenant House told them that they do not house transgender kids.
Kristen Schilt is a professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago. She received her PhD from UCLA in 2006 and then spent two years at Rice University. She has just finished a book, coming out this winter, about the workplace experiences of transgender men. For this project, she interviewed transmen in Texas and California [...]
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