OT;; Death of transvestite Abo custody death = australias shame

Saturday, July 20, 2010
Protest for Veronnica Baxter

On July 9, 13600 people took to the streets to condemn the death of
Aboriginal transvestite woman Veronnica Baxter. She was found dead in
the Silverwater Metropolitan Reception and Remand Centre — a prison
for men — six days after her arrest by Redfern police on minor drugs
charges.

The protesters were in Wollongong for Queer Collaborations, a yearly
student activist conference supporting lesbian, gay, bisexual, trans,
intersex and gender diverse rights. The July 5-9 conference had 180
participants and the theme “Fighting Queers Need Fighting Unions”.

People in the Wollongong mall responded positively to the loud chants
of "Stop black deaths in custody — justice for Veronnica Baxter" and
signed two pages of petitions within an hour.

Stef Greenshields, Queer Collaborations conference spokesperson told
Green Left Weekly: “The action was good because it showed a huge
amount of positive support for this campaign. We will take the
campaign onto campuses and won’t stop till we have won justice for
Veronnica Baxter.”

The action joined the growing chorus calling for an inquiry into her
death. The Indigenous Social Justice Association (ISJA), Community
Action Against Homophobia, Intersex Sex and Gender Association, Still
Fierce, Organisation Intersex International (OII), Socialist Alliance
and the Greens all support the call for an inquiry.

Queer Collaborations projections include combating homophobia in high
schools through a referendum on equal marriage rights; helping the
campaign to free Leela Krishna, a gay Tamil refugee detained in
Villawood; and continuing to develop dynamic queer collectives in
universities. Queer Collaborations 2011 will be held in Perth.

[For more information about the Veronnica Baxter campaign, call Ray 02
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begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 02 9318 0947
end_of_the_skype_highlighting, Stef 0400 253 384, Tracie 0403 398 808,
or Sylvia 02 9230 3030.]
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Australia
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Saturday, July 20, 2010
Protest for Veronnica Baxter

On July 9, 13600 people took to the streets to condemn the death of
Aboriginal transvestite woman Veronnica Baxter. She was found dead in
the Silverwater Metropolitan Reception and Remand Centre — a prison
for men — six days after her arrest by Redfern police on minor drugs
charges.

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Looks like your post is totally queer
a transvestite is not a she,
it is a person who dresses in the clothing of the opposite sex,
i.e., a person who cross-dresses.
still a male

 

I dunno George....

OP reads like she was a woman, and a transvestite, as in wore blokes'
clothes, and she got locked up in a prison for blokes.

regards,
CrazyCam

 

I dunno Cam......
even though I have never been in the situation either way,
but, I thought that if the tranny was male and had male appendages, he was
locked up in a male prison.
If it was a female dressed in male attire, then the name should have given
the game away and they do a frisk search, if the tranny was female, then it
would have objected till it was transferred to an all female prison

 

I read these words "-Aboriginal transvestite woman Veronnica Baxter.
She was found dead in the Silverwater Metropolitan Reception and
Remand Centre".
Sounds like a woman to me. Cam has it correct.

Theo

 

I read these words "-Aboriginal transvestite woman Veronnica Baxter.
She was found dead in the Silverwater Metropolitan Reception and
Remand Centre".
Sounds like a woman to me. Cam has it correct.

Theo

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Maybe so Theo but,
reading through almost everything in the news about the death of whatever it
was, there is still no real and final answer as to what it was, male or
female.
On one hand, it is claimed that the tranny was a female, then later in the
interview, it is suggested that the tranny was a male.

""
Ray Jackson, president of the Indigenous Social Justice Association and
elder of the Wiradguri nation, and has been fighting black deaths in custody
for decades and campaigning around the Baxter case for a year.

He explained: "If trans people are post-operative transgender women, they
are considered real women, and are placed within the women's jail. If they
are pre-operative transgender women, they are considered 'male' and are
normally processed in a male jail."

Transgender people face a disproportionate amount of abuse, rape, and murder
in jail. Consequently, in Australia, strict guidelines exist, requiring
protective segregation of transgender people from mainstream prisoners.

The Crimes (Administration of Sentences) Act 1999 states "any person
received into the custody of the NSW Department of Corrective Services (DCS)
who self-identifies as transgender has the right to be housed in a
correctional facility appropriate to their gender or identification". It
says: "Transgender inmates are to be managed according to their chosen
gender of identification." Transgender women normally request to get placed
in wome""

 

I certainly don't know what, exactly, was the real story, but, winding
up dead because of some "minor drugs charge" does seem rather over the
top to me.

It is a great pity that the legal system has so little acquaintance with
justice. :-(

regards,
CrazyCam

 

Don't really think it ever did have

 

And that makes the death ok?

 

I cannot see anywhere in the thread, where anyone has suggested that the
death may or may not have been "okay" as you put it,
If you had read the original post, you would have, or should have seen the
reference to "queer"
The object of the replies is to determine which sex the prisoner was and
which prison it should have been admitted to
There is no relevance at all regarding the legality of the demise of the
inmate.
It appears that the authorities of the detention centre, determined that it
was a male

 

Which is fair enough, but totally failed their duty of care, which isn't!

MrT.