Epb Goth News Today

violence against women intervention and prevention grants [inaudible] 35 thousand individuals and of these 98 were transendered. the rec was able to expand their program supporting transgender clients. i know youll be hearing from other department agencies of ours who all have services for transgendered clients, but its not formally under our violence against women prevention and division grants program. >> i think with challenge comes opportunity, my office has been working with domes...

say it comes because of the support from a number of city agencies. >> thank you. next like to call upon a very important player in all of this and that is our human rights commission and i see our executive director. i think were all aware of her tremendous and historic leadership in the fight for equal rights and certainly especially for the transgender community. we were talking about the /phrafrpt earlier and of course you were the first transgender member of that commission. >> th...

of that commission. >> thank you. before i start id like represent i have from the hrc, lupe to give you a brief background on whats been going on from our perspective [inaudible] would like to say a few words about what were doing now, the direction were going and some of the -- like to praise the police department, the da for their work over the last few years, particularly the school district, but i think theres things we can do differently to address this population. >> thank you f...

historic leadership in the fight for equal rights and certainly especially for the transgender community. we were talking about the /phrafrpt earlier and of course you were the first transgender member of that commission. >> thank you. before i start id like represent i have from the hrc, lupe to give you a brief background on whats been going on from our perspective [inaudible] would like to say a few words about what were doing now, the direction were going and some of the -- like to...

whats going on in the community. we met with them. friday were meeting with a larger group of more people to try to understand really what the problem is because im not sure we understand what the issue is. if we have 1.6 percent of transgender people in high school that have identified themselves, i dont know how many we have that havent. so this is a bigger /eurblg shoe than just a small percentage of individuals. these women in the mission are getting murdered, people think theyre t...