{"id":66459,"date":"2018-03-28T12:25:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/more-than-a-number-shifting-the-media-narrative-on-transgender-homicide\/"},"modified":"2018-03-28T12:25:25","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T16:25:25","slug":"more-than-a-number-shifting-the-media-narrative-on-transgender-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gayfriendschat.com\/socialblog\/more-than-a-number-shifting-the-media-narrative-on-transgender-homicide\/","title":{"rendered":"More than a number: shifting the media narrative on transgender homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>More than a number: shifting the media narrative on transgender homicide<\/b><\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.glaad.org\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/1200px\/public\/images\/2018-03\/Screen%20Shot%202018-03-28%20at%2011.47.21%20AM.png?itok=Oa2gEcXJ&#038;c=ff84c8261f69da1a2399894171e5ab5d\" alt=\"\"><br \/>GLAAD&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glaad.org\/publications\/more-than-a-number\"><em>More Than a Number:\u00a0Shifting the Media Narrative on Transgender Homicide<\/em><\/a>\u00a0report is an advanced reporting guide for journalists and advocates to accompany our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glaad.org\/publications\/transgendervictimsofcrime\">Doubly Victimized Guide<\/a>. It reflects that many more reporters are now covering the homicides of transgender people in the U.S. but there is still a lot of work to do to improve coverage. The biggest hurdle, in this report\u2019s thesis, is to shift from the &#8220;deadliest year ever&#8221; headlines into a more accurate and respectful framing of lives lost.<\/p>\n<p>This report\u00a0outlines the importance of moving away from focusing solely on the number of victims lost in a given year,\u00a0documents the epidemic of anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> violence in 2017, and provides reporters with advanced tips and advice from transgender spokespeople and activists about how to better cover anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> violence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cWe must evolve the ongoing national conversation around the fatal violence that transgender Americans face far too frequently and work together to report accurately and fairly when covering this epidemic,\u201d <strong>said Sarah Kate Ellis, President <\/strong><strong>and<\/strong><strong> CEO of GLAAD<\/strong>. \u201cWhen we reduce individual lives to a number we dehumanize those who we have lost and fail to address the stories and humanity of victims whose <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> identities have been erased following their death.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>More Than a Number\u00a0includes an advanced tip sheet for reporters covering the epidemic of anti-<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a> violence in the United States. Key highlights include:\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li role=\"listitem\">\n<p><strong>Don\u2019t treat each case as a number<\/strong>: Break away from the same overly simplistic and predictable format: name of the victim, the circumstance of their death, and running tally of the number of known transgender homicides that year and fail to humanize the victim.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li role=\"listitem\">\n<p><strong>Take time to humanize the victim<\/strong>: Reach out with empathy to friends, family, and community members to get information about their life.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li role=\"listitem\">\n<p><strong>Remember there is no way to be fully confident that the number of known victims accurately reflects the total number killed in any given year.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li role=\"listitem\">\n<p>Don\u2019t only report on stories that place the transgender community in the context of victimhood:\u00a0also cover topics such as victories for transgender equality, accomplishments of members of the transgender community, stories of\u00a0<a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/offers.cam4tracking.com\/aff_c?offer_id=125&#38;aff_id=2778&#38;source=gfcsb\">trans<\/a>\u00a0people who have lived prior to the 21st\u00a0century, and more.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p>The report also includes advice to reporters from transgender spokespeople around the nation who have had experience educating reporters on the homicides of transgender\u00a0<span>people<\/span>\u00a0and working to improve media coverage, including:\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Shelby Chestnut, National Organizing and Policy Strategist,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/transgenderlawcenter.org\/\">Transgender Law Center<\/a><\/strong>: \u201cReporters can play an important role in correcting the police when they put out misinformation. Take setting the record straight seriously.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Monica Roberts, Journalist and\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Writer,<\/strong><strong>\u00a0Founding\u00a0Editor of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/transgriot.blogspot.com\/\">TransGriot<\/a><\/strong>: \u201cNine times out of ten people have a Facebook page, where you can get correct information about the person and nice photos that you can use.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0<br \/><strong>LaLa\u00a0Zannell, Lead Organizer,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/avp.org\/\">New\u00a0York City Anti-Violence Project<\/a><\/strong>: \u201cAsk about what resources can be included in your reporting. Is there a\u00a0GoFundMe\u00a0site to support the family? A vigil to honor the victim? A local organization that can support the community at this time?\u201d\u202f\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>The \u201cMore Than a Number\u201d report also includes in-depth case studies that breaks down the media coverage of the homicides of three transgender <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> who were killed in 2017,\u00a0Stephanie Montez\u00a0(Robstown, TX),\u00a0Ally Lee\u00a0Steinfeld\u00a0(Cabool, MO), and\u00a0Jaylow\u00a0Mcglory\u00a0(Alexandria, LA), exposing what went wrong during the initial reporting and what can be improved moving forward.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>GLAAD and other organizations like the National Coalition of Anti-Violence will continue the tracking and analysis of homicides of transgender people in the U.S. for the vital information that we can learn and share for advocacy, organizing, education, and memorialization. While GLAAD is advocating for moving media coverage away from simply counting the number of victims each year, and toward an acknowledgment that we cannot yet measure the full scope of this national tragedy, the information we track remains highly valuable. Below are the key demographic trends from the homicides that GLAAD tracked in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li role=\"listitem\">\n<p>In the United States alone,\u00a0<strong>26 people &#8211; that we know of &#8211; were victims of homicide in 2017.<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li role=\"listitem\">\n<p><strong>25 (96%) of the 26 known transgender victims in 2017 were transgender <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/www.flirt4free.com\/live\/girls\/?mp_code=akftr\">women<\/a> or people assigned <a title=\"\" class=\"aalmanual\" target=\"_blank\"   href=\"https:\/\/chaturbate.com\/in\/?tour=R2Xc&#38;campaign=hl4zp&#38;track=gfcsb\">male<\/a> at birth who were feminine-presenting<\/strong>.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li role=\"listitem\">\n<p><strong>24 (92%) of the transgender people murdered this year were people of color<\/strong>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li role=\"listitem\">\n<p>As is common practice in initial police or media reports on transgender victims of homicide,<strong>\u00a0at least 22 of the victims (85%) were\u00a0<\/strong><strong>misgendered\u00a0in initial reports of their deaths.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li role=\"listitem\">\n<p>At the date of this report [March 28, 2018], <strong>twelve of the murders (46%) are unsolved<\/strong>: of these twelve cases, a person or persons of interest have been identified in only four of them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>READ the full report:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glaad.org\/publications\/more-than-a-number\">www.glaad.org\/publications\/more-than-a-number<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div><span>March 28, 2018<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.glaad.org\/blog\/more-number-shifting-media-narrative-transgender-homicide\" class=\"autohyperlink\">www.glaad.org\/blog\/more-number-shifting-media-narrative-transgender-homicide<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a number: shifting the media narrative on transgender homicide GLAAD&#8217;s\u00a0More Than a Number:\u00a0Shifting the Media Narrative on Transgender Homicide\u00a0report is an advanced reporting guide for journalists and advocates to accompany our\u00a0Doubly Victimized Guide. 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