TRANSPHOBIC HATE CRIME

AND HARASSMENT

A Personal Account

Nell Stockton

CONTENT1. What is transphobia?2. When transphobia came

knocking3. The Police Response4. Community Response5. Tales of the Unexpected

WHAT IS TRANSPHOBIAThis is transphobia – plain and simple.

The dictionary definition – from Oxford Dictionaries for those who say ‘It’s not a real word…it’s not a phobia…a phobia is like being afraid of spiders.’ – is ‘Intense dislike of or prejudice against transsexual or transgender people.’

EXPLANATIONS & EXCUSES 1

DENIAL

EXPLANATIONS & EXCUSES 2

SELF PROTECTION - TRANS WOMEN ARE DECEITFUL PREDATORS TRYING TO TRAP MENA scene from the movie The Crying Game

EXPLANATIONS & EXCUSES 3

PROTECTING THE ‘VULNERABLE’The toilet/changing room as a place for trans people to prey particularly women and girls

EXPLANATIONS & EXCUSES 4

RELIGION

EXPLANATIONS & EXCUSES 5

TRANS PEOPLE ARE MENTALLY ILL

EXPLANATIONS & EXCUSES 6

TRANS PEOPLE ARE NARCISSISTIC

EXPLANATIONS & EXCUSES 7

TRANS PEOPLE ARE SEXUAL FETISHISTS

It’s not a selfie!!!!

EXPLANATIONS & EXCUSES 8

TRANS PEOPLE CAN’T BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY

EXPLANATIONS AND EXCUSES 9

REVULSION

THE RESULT –

TRANSPHOBIA

WHEN TRANSPHOBIA CAME KNOCKING

THE SOUTH YORKSHIRE POLICE RESPONSE

THE MEDIA RESPONSE

The Daily Mail Feature Barnsley Chronicle

THE COMMUNITY RESPONSE

TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED

REWARDS