On May 27, Tony McDade, a trans man and Tallahassee resident, was killed by a police officer. No video exists of his death, so both local and national outlets have deferred to the police department’s description: McDade was a suspect in a fatal stabbing; as officers attempted to arrest him he allegedly moved as if to draw a weapon and was shot. Though a Florida law allows the person who killed him to remain anonymous, bystanders identified the officer as white.\n
that officers feared for their safety. But even in such accounts, residents still misgendered McDade.
Trans people are denied safety in their lives, but they are stripped of peace even in death, their identities picked apart and questioned with more scrutiny than the events surrounding their murders. In itsmisgendered McDade and employed his dead name in service of a narrative of him as an unreliable victim,
speaking with residents who claimed he “wore men’s clothes but identified as a woman.” WFSU, a Florida public news outlet, alsoMcDade. Citing the police’s official account, the outlets said that McDade had fatally stabbed someone minutes before his death. Earlier in the day, McDade had posted a Facebook Live, in which he claimed he was seeking out several men who had attacked him the day prior in a transphobic attack.
“People will try to tell you he just committed a stabbing. People will judge him, and act like they can have anything to say about his actions and they have no right. They have no right to say anything about Tony McDade or his actions, when you’re a trans person, when you’re a black person who is constantly beaten down by the system in every way possible.
June is pride month. Sharply contrasted by McDade’s death are the tactics many in the LGBTQ+ community have employed in the last 50 years to remove black trans people from the official history of liberation movements. Stonewall’s history is still contested, despite overwhelming evidence that black trans people and drag queens led the organizing, the protests, and ensuing riots.
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