community. out reach -- a lot

of it has been listening. we've been trying to listen and also make ourselves available to the community. >> okay. thank you. the point that i want to make sheer is this and this is not a personal point against any /phebl of the hate crimes unit. i appreciate that people have a job to do and we appreciate the work, but this is part of the frustration here. but i am grateful that we are talking

about the mission station because captain has repeatedly proven himself to be very responsive to the residents of that neighborhood. the problem i have with the hate crimes unit is that i have to say it hasn't been, in my view, engaged in the level that it needs to be engaged. until now that captain said that they were here, my office had not even heard from them that they were coming. i had to call chief [inaudible] yesterday and ask them to make sure that they were here because i think that it would have been embarrassing if the hate crimes unit hadn't been present for this discussion. i don't think it's

meaningful out reach to the transgender community and i think this is a big part of the problem and i really hope that the situation changings. i know that [inaudible] is committed to this issue, i know captain is committed to this issue, but i think that the presentation as we saw speaks for itself. there's a lot to be desired there. so with that, let me call only the department of the status of women. i want to thank our executive director and your staff for your responsiveness on this herbal issue and it's good to have you here. >> i'm director of the department on the status of women. last night i was [inaudible] it really did

reaffirm the importance of inclusiveness and that's the kind of inclusiveness we like to demonstrate at the department for or transgender sisters. as you know, the 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 groups like ella, the funding we have given them has been for hiv related work, but a lot of

the work they do is around violence prevention. i think we have a way here to create the right level of funding. we even thought of doing a supplemental but we are in the middle of the budget process and i would like to work with your department to see how with [inaudible] to do violence prevention work for transgender women. >> last week at the [inaudible] we met with ella and with lyric to talk about the unmet needs by this community and it was very clear to us that we need to do a better job and the level of violence was just astounding. it was not acceptable for our city so i would like to make a commitment. one of the things

we can do better is better data collection so we are committed in the next fiscal year to mod fie our forms so we're asking our agencies how in transgenders are you [inaudible] particularly in the area of raining. i think there's a lot of need in the area of training. just one last note. we did in our 2012 update the girl's report /-r /-r include a new section that hadn't been there before on the needs of lgtb girls and i /tpho*e [inaudible] is here from the school district and she's going to view some of those very detail /-ld statistics but we were quite alarmed of depression and /aeu cemented suicides among lgtb girls and transgender. so that showed us there's unmet need in

this community /-fp >> thank you very much. let's here from the san francisco unified school district. thank you for being present in this important discussion. >> being that we're from the school district, we have a powerpoint, so do we just -- and we were asked to bring some copies so i've got -- >> great. do we need tech

support? do you have it? >> hi, i'm kevin and i'm here [inaudible] for lgtbq youth. /tp*eurls i want to thanks supervisor campos for asking us to put into context some of the programs and policies that we have in san francisco unified to protect the safety of our transgender students and to give you a snapshot of some of our data. and supervisor yee, you know this data almost as well as we do, i think. so

support services for lgbtq youth provides [inaudible] we provide professional develop. we have liaisons in all our mids and high schools. we bring in theater paren presentationings. at the bottom there is our website link, which also has the policies and procedures as well as curriculum that our educators and some of our students can access if they want. it's the first program of its kind and the only one

that's integrated throughout the whole district.

>> 1.3 of our middle school students identify as transgender and 1.6 of our high school students identify as transgender. >> we wanted to put a little bit of context into our general populations and you can see here that about 1600 identify as lgbq, with the large else number in our middle school students falling under the q. in our high school it's about 1800 who identify as lgbq. there's a slight drop in the percentage here to 11 because

>> why is the t not there? >> this is just on sexual or yen /taegs. orientation. >> so now we'll get into some of the specific data. our first slide shows /raeuls and ethnicity. you'll see middle school [inaudible] and then the next line is the total population within that [inaudible] and then the second, third column over our high school population by race and ethnicity. so looking into

some of the disparities, you will see the first slide is on bullying. i want to remind you that the question that we ask on the wire is how the students identify their gender so you'll see students who identify as male or female or transgender. again, we're going all the way down with cyber bullying, or skipping school because they don't feel safe. this is three, four, five, eight times higher for our transgender students. similar questions.

>> if we look at some of the health risk disparities here we can see it's quite obvious that our students who identify as transgendered are at much greater risk at the middle school level for having used a variety of substances and also is pretty alarming in the high school level as well. the suicide is also highly increased for our students who identify as transgender. and as the supervisor [inaudible] we have made explicit out reach on this topic, especially with our high school udents. and

in terms of our sexual behaviors, you can see that we don't know what the sex is, but we -- it is clear that our students who are transgendered are at higher risk for engaging in risky sex activities as well. this surveys sixth, seventh and ninth graders. what it does is it looks at assets and risk factors of our students. if we look at our middle school environment indicators where it's looking apt connectedness to school and sense of safety, you can see that our

transgender students were at higher risk for not feeling safe at school or feeling attached to an adult at school. the good news is in high school it is almost [inaudible] in their sense of being happy with the school, part of the school and attached to an adult. our policy -- the san francisco unified school district on transgender eded /kwro*uz the bathroom that corresponds /kor to their [inaudible] identified gender. our outreach to students and to families who are gender variant

or who are transgendered. includes [inaudible] also as well as on the high school level we've done some explicit outreach and our youth outreach workers have presented ed peer presentations reaching [inaudible] so it'll come in the last day. and some of the names of the outreaches were clear, the love fest, lgbtq and our sexual health fairs. thanks. >> thank you very much.

supervisor yee. >> so in asking the questions earlier in terms of the facts and whether they were targeting or not and in real life that this high percentage of transgender students that have contemplated suicide, it's probably due more to this teasing and this verbal things that go on in the school setting an outside the school setting rather juan somebody actually being attacked. >> i think there's a couple of things for us to consider when we look at our students in school who are coming to an awareness that their gender

doesn't match stereo typical norms. they are teased as a rule, they are bullied as a result and oftentimes they aren't clear who they can turn to for assistance. the other thing that's problematic about this data is we don't know [inaudible] identifying as transgender, but we don't know who they are. so our programs do cut us a broad swap to educate and to provide resources for all of our students so that we hope that the students who need the assistance will come in to our wellness programs or will meet with the /skao*l social workers or district nurses to get that help. it's one of the challenges that isongoing

issue for us. so in response, there's many issues that would lead a young person to consider or attempt or to plan a suicide. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. i just want to make one observation. i used to work for the school district and the school district, at times, you always felt [inaudible] like a stepchild or somehow you were not. as good doing as good a the city, i think this is an example that there are areas where the school district is far ahead of where some city agencies are in terms of the level of data collection. this is really impressive and i'm proud to see that. >> thank you. and i have to 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 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 long time and we're real /hre thankful that it's get /t-g attention that it's due. so as a human rights commission our job is to investigate human rights in the city. just

generally transgender immigrant population in the city, you

know, the act of reporting, the act of standing up to your abuser or to the attacker and kind of having that agency and the strength to be able to do so. one of the things that the hrc did is in april we hosted a meeting that was attended by the san francisco police department, the hate crimes unit, supervisor campos' office as well as any other [inaudible] and infirmary and also most importantly members of the /tra*pb tran community. at the meeting some very transgender women talked about the experiences that they faced everyday and very honestly. and this was a very powerful moment 'cause i think it put a /tpaeuls and /sroeuls and experience on a body to the things we've been talking

about. so for them to be able to be there and to face the city agencies and the sfpd and be there with the city attorney and tell them this is what's going on in the da's office, i think was a very powerful moment for /*efrbl in the room. what was really great about this meeting is that all the agencies came out, voiced their commitment in doing what they could to ensure the safe it have of transgender women in san francisco. so all the [inaudible] that were there were committed to continuing to have these meetings in the future so we could continue to not just have a one time conversation, but to continue having commune caution and cooperation between the agencies, organizations and the /tra*pb transgender community.

especially for transgender men and women who /tpaeuls additional obstacles to get justice for what happens to them here in the city and so we really are thankful to all the city agencies. [inaudible] continue to continue meeting with us and the [inaudible] community, continue to see what more can be done. this is not a one or two meeting process. this is a very continuous able to feel safe in their /oepbl neighborhood. thank you. >> director sparks. >> on march 16, 2007, ruby rodriguez was brutally murdered in san francisco, a transgender woman. in the six months prior to that, two other transgender

/wupl were brutally murdered. on the 22nd of march 2007, i was at a rally to talk about what's the city going to do about these brutal murders of transgender women. fast forward six years, what are we doing? we're talking about brutal assaults and god forbid whether or not there's murders, but assaults that we know of that may be occurring in the same neighborhood, with the same population and here we are talking about the same thing. i think the /phrafrpt -- i was a /phebl, as was the supervisor -- i think they're doing a wonderful job. i think they're addressing the transgender overall with training, going to

schools, they recruit for transgender. i think the da has really focused on being able to be prosecute transgender hate /kwraoeupls when they find it. the problem become -- i think the school district's statistics are very telling and overlay them with individual who comes from another country, who may or may not have papers or may or may not be documented. we need to look at all the circumstances, not lgbt or [inaudible] dealing with those specific people and that specific population. when i meet with ruby rod e

rodriguez's mother her mother sat down and said why is my daughter seen by this city and this country as a throw away soul. why do we see her as throw away? and i couldn't answer that because all the actions of the city that were happening at that time, this population was seen as a throw away. and /phaeupbl i'm being a bit harsh, but history seems to be repeating itself. we called a community meeting together with the community people, law enforcement and /sraeurls /aeu /skwrepbl /seus to talk about the issue. and transgender women came forward and talked about it and it was a very heart wrenching discussion and it was a very /r*efting discussion and god love the captain. he stood there and took it, but