Transgender Community Alarmed by D.C. Shootings (WP)

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A29063-2003Aug21.html

here they go again....

"Attacks during the past week against MEN WHO LIVE AS WOMEN, including two shootings Wednesday night and yesterday morning, have left two dead in the District and alarmed activists of the transgender community."

emphasis mine

ththe WP really needs to get its act together and recognize the fact that these are women. transgender women, if necessary, but WOMEN.

women women women!

Then, Saturday morning, Elvys Augusto Perez, a well-known drag performer who went by the name "Bella Evangelista," was shot and killed on Allison Street NW. Police arrested a 22-year-old man and said he had paid Perez for oral sex and then returned in anger after he learned that Perez was a man. With the arrest, police classified the shooting a hate crime.

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Friends said that Marshall was always upfront about being a man and that they didn't believe that the killer could have been a sexual partner who felt deceived.

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The site is near the center of transgender prostitution in Washington, Fifth and K streets NW, but police said they were unsure whether the shooting was connected to the sex trade.

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OH COME ON! Of course it was connected to the "sex trade". The DC Police department needs to get a clue.

Anyone else remember the "good old days" when it took the mainstream media literally years to start repoting about AIDS after hundreds of deaths? Liberal media my ass.