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 the q shrinks for high school. >> 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 students. and if we look here 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 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 ink 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