help. it's one of the challenges that is an ongoing 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 this is 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 documentation issues and other things. so they are license to beat 'em up and do whatever they want because they don't think anything will ever come of it. i think the city needs to /shaoeupbl a very

bright light in this community and neighborhood. we /tphraoed more funding. as far as a community f you look at a percentage of the community and vie /hrepbls in that community, it's an epidemic from this community's stand point so we need to focus funding, resources, but more importantly -- and i met with chief yesterday and he fully agrees, we need to make sure the officeers in that district are culturely come /tepblt to deal with this population, not deal with the treason tran women who go to the lgtb acceptabilitier who march in the parade and who are out and about like some of us. to deal with this specific population and he's committed that the beat officers in that area and that the individual commission station will focus on this. so i thank supervisor campos. i keep calling him

commissioner. i'm trying in the hospital to promote you. but i really appreciate you shining a light on this. i'm convinced your office will continue to follow this and we will do /wha*r we can to assist. >> i want to make a couple of points before we turn into pub hick comment. i believe we have the best police department in the /kupbl /treu and the fact that this police department is having these issues tells me that it must be pretty bad in other parts of the /kufpbl /treu. i think there are many things that this police department has done extremely well. i don't /theup one of them is doing outreach to this particular population. i don't believe that enough has been done to really connect with them and to make them feel like they can come forward. i think a lot more can be done and i think that there there is

an accident and i /tpho*e if any and all can make it happen, [inaudible] will make it happen. so i think that's the /khal listening here is that from what i have seen, there is no trust from this particular population of this police department right now. and so we need to change that. but i think that it's also an issue of resources. it's not enough to say that they have to be given the resources and the tools to make that happen. so i think it's possible and we' certainly not gonna walk away from this issue, /kopblt to focus on it as much as we need to until something actually -- until we see changes that need to be made, but there is something unique happening about the transgender community in that neighborhood because even though there are some larger issues there that are being addressed, there is something specific to the

transgender /hra tee /tpho*e community that needs to be addressed. and it's not just the police department, it's the communality itself. one of the questions i have is we're talking an violence against transgender women in the mission. we have a mission piece, /khrabtive that is supposed to work on public safety. at the last /phao*ting i /tpho*eted where are you when it comes to transgender issues. transgender /hra tinas, by the way, many of them being targeting by the latino community. with that, let me just call on members of the

public who would like to speak. any and all who wants to speak please come up. i see a number of you who are here and i really would love to make sure that you have an opportunity to say something and thank you for being here. so come on up. >> thank you supervisor campos. i'm [inaudible] just want to let you know that at asian woman's /sheltder we provide support services for [inaudible] and different kind of violence and our shelter is

available for all victims. we provides space for both transgender women and men. so in the shelter with work with clients to secure safe housing, new employment and other networkings such as healthcare or child care. but the shelter's stay is very short -- either two or three months -- so we provide follow up -- we just want to say any support for our work is really appreciated from our community. thank you. >> thank you for what you do. next speaker. >> i'd like to thank both of the supervisor /t-r for being here today. i want to add a little bit about what we do in

trying to change community attitudes and a lot of that is what we do through our volunteer training program which pros 50 new and vibrant volunteers an language advocates every year. in 40 different languages they take messages that they through the volunteer training. miss /sapblgs about violence in all families, all communities and the importance of inclusive services for all members of domestic violence. some of those experiences and some of those community generated discussions have created a safe space so that transgender m

embers in those communities have felt safe and confident to reveal their identities. thank you very much. >> hi, i'm here as a representative of woman inc, which i wanna thank you for discussing this really important topic today. transgender women are survivor [inaudible] we are thankful for the recent media coverage on

the hate against trans communities. [inaudible] of 43 lgtbq /sp-fbg about violence [inaudible] ourity,

>> i have been in as much /s-f for a very short period of time, about four months and i have felt very welcomed in the organization that's received me with open arms. i'm a volunteer there and i really appreciate the work of this organization. we have many needs in our organization. we offer many services like peer support services, help fiending

housing and we're a community that has a wide variety of needs. i see the needs of my sisters. many of us have to sleep in the street and homeless shelters in situations that are often intimidating and difficult. and ella is a space where we feel at home, we have a cup of coffee, we have any food that's available and offered there, but most importantly it's a space that we feel safe. but we have many needs and i'm asking you today

for the city to support our organizations with funding. that's all, hank thank you very much. >> next speaker. >> hi, good afternoon, my name is [inaudible] and i work for the organization ella. i am here to advocate on behalf of the women in my community. in my community the mission, there is too much violence against my community of women. this is violence that comes from people

outside of my community as well as the police. just recently i was walking with a friend who was assault and we called the police and the police did absolutely nothing. we had to follow the perpetrator of this assault and capture the person on our own and this really was an experience that taught me that we are not a protected community in the city. the only thing i'll here to ask for

is more security for myself and the members of my community. thank you so much. >> next speaker please. >> hello, my name is [inaudible] and i am program super /sraoeutz so are at ella. i really shouldn't be here. i think that [inaudible] they should be here to tell their story, to be able to [inaudible] violence against transwomen but they're not here. they've been murdered brutally. i came across [inaudible] memorial /s*fls and the rally and all the community came out. mark leno was there,

/sraeurls various people in this room were there. community organizationings came together and were like, we can't let this go, we need to respond. i reflect on where that incident happened, i refleck where we are now and really they thinks haven't changed at all. at the memorial service i spoke and i asked the question, what are we left with now? what are we supposed to do ? what is our next step? how do we take on the responsibility to make sure these incidents of violence don't happen? because we can't

-- there's no resources available for us. we've had to do bake sales to provide [inaudible] we've repeated the /sta /teus statistics over and over. the knowledge is here. what has been said from past leaders is known so i hope we can move forward and talk about transformative approaches. thank you. >> hi, my name's stacy and i'm program's codirector at community [inaudible] we've been in the community for over 34 years and i have to echo what has been said. we've seen

the trends of transgender women [inaudible] broader lgbtq community. i'm excited we get to talk about this issue and i hope this results in more robust support from the city not just in funding, but for the broader issue that transgender women are living with be [inaudible] which results in unstable housing and

results in conditions that [inaudible] isolation and fear. and so family rejection -- all these things create a culture where it's not safe to be transgender. we've been trying to provide more holistic support so we can mitigate some of the psychological and mental impacts that the violence has. thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. >> good afternoon supervisors. i stand here not representing the organization that i advocate for, but a concerned community member. i will

continue [inaudible] she was mission police department has been working on transgender community on [inaudible]. next month is our tenth year. there's gonna be a whole lot of transgender out in the community that's gonna be out to celebrate. the hotels know crimes that were committed in the hotels -- the owners of these private hotels tell law enforce /-pl force [inaudible] do not warrant any