via the sacramento bee:
Authorities recovered the body of a 22-year-old transgender woman from the American River on Sunday.
A fisherman spotted the body about 12:45 p.m. floating in the middle of the river less than a mile southeast of the Highway 160 bridge, coroner and police officials said.
Officer Konrad Von Schoech said authorities initially thought the body was female, because of long hair, painted toenails and a smaller frame. The body was also covered in mud so it was hard to tell, he said.
On closer examination, authorities determined it was a male body, Von Schoech said.
does it really matter what kind of body “it” is? a human being is dead, and i’ll be willing to bet that some homophobic murderer killed her.
update:
ugh. from cbs13.com:
how many ways is this report offensive? “transgender man”? “death is suspicious”? “could be a hate crime”? “looks to me like it’s a female”. “looks can be deceiving”. yeah, isn’t that exactly what us trans people do - deceive.
on so it goes. watch the video for more ugliness.
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