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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 you'll be hearing from other department agencies of ours who all have services for transgendered clients, but it's not formally under our violence against women prevention and division grants program. >> i think with challenge comes opportunity, my office has been working with domestic violence departments and how to work to prevent violence against transgender women. i know gro...

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 we're 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. >> thank you. before i start i'd like represent i have from the hrc, lupe to give you a brief background...

of that commission. >> thank you. before i start i'd like represent i have from the hrc, lupe to give you a brief background on what's been going on from our perspective [inaudible] would like to say a few words about what we're doing now, the direction we're 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 there's things we can do differently to address this population. >> thank you for having this /haerling. this is an issue that has been in everybody's minds and hearts for a ...

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 i'd like represent i have from the hrc, lupe to give you a brief background on what's been going on from our perspective [inaudible] would like to say a few words about what we're doing now, the direction we're going and some of the -- like to praise the police department, the da for their work over the last few years, particularly the s...

what's going on in the community. we met with them. friday we're meeting with a larger group of more people to try to understand really what the problem is because i'm 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 don't know how many we have that haven't. so this is a bigger /eurblg shoe than just a small percentage of individuals. these women in the mission are getting murdered, people think they're throw away, people think they /wo*epb goth to the police because they're scared of documentatio...