ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 8月8日 11時48分

When Elle Hearns watched the video clip someone sent her on social media, it really stung. It featured a black comedian joking that if a sexual partner turned out to be a transgender woman, he'd want to kill her if she hadn’t told him beforehand. Elle, photographed here by @ajmast, is a transgender woman who’s devoted much of her life over the past few years to defending black people from the harassment, brutality and killings they face at the hands of the police. “I was ashamed, I was embarrassed, I was angry,” she said. At the heart of her pain is a betrayal that black #transgender people say has long afflicted them. With few exceptions, they say they get more hatred from black people than anyone else, even though they’ve been on the front lines protesting issues that affect all African-Americans. “Now that it’s time for people to be joining in our fight, no one’s there,” said Atlantis Narcisse, the founder of Save Our Sisters, a support organization for black transgender women in Houston. “They will stand up for a drug dealer being killed or a black man being beaten, but won’t stand up for black trans women being murdered.” Although the raw numbers are small, estimates suggest that transgender people are killed at a much higher rate than the general population. “I think the only way to move forward with the protection of underrepresented communities is to really push back and fight back against the cultural norms,” Elle said. Visit the link in our profile to read more and continue the conversation.

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