REPORT ON TRANSGENDER HOMELESS (Review, with Self-Comparison)

 Last year, when the issue of homelessness THEN was only felt distant, when I felt there WOULD BE NO SMART REASON TO EVICT ME AS RENTPAYER, AND A KIND RENTPAYER, AT THAT, the National Alliance to End Homelessness pressed a 'white paper' limning the situation that homeless transgender people experience. I have 'scanned' this article as a fairly-swift reader with more-than-fair comprehension skills, and in summary

The article states that the number of transgender people becoming homeless is INCREASING; most of these trannies do not find shelters in which to stay, and correspondingly, the unsheltered majority of them have perils in excess of their comparable cis-gendered homeless folk. The comparison, across the board, is clear that the unsheltered of these are more prone to abuse, being-drug-into-jail, disease and mental disease; moreover THE PERIL FOR BLACK TRANSGENDERED HOMELESS IS EVEN MORE DIRE ON THESE VARIABLES THAN FOR WHITES. The report states that almost 30 transgender homeless were murdered in a recent year-- 90% OF WHOM WERE BLACK.

Lacking any clear at all mention as to why I was evicted via non-renewal of my lease, I still can say that on May 12 of this year, my best iterative footwork-- AS TRANSGENDERED HOMELESS PERSON-- to get sheltered (from the places that I had heard would accept 'women born as men') was fraught with difficulty, but not for reasons re which this National Alliance to End Homelessness seems to allude: THE LOCAL CENTER FOR WOMEN AND FAMILIES ON SECOND STREET, WHILE TAKING TRANS-F CLIENTS, WILL ONLY DO SO AS VICTIMS OF PARTNER-ABUSE (AND MOREOVER DID NOT AT ANY RATE HAVE A BED FOR ME, DESPITE MY TREK OF PERHAPS 8-10 MILES FROM 'SHIVELY' @ CRUMS LANE AND MANSLICK ROAD). . .

THE 

WONDERFUL (FOR ME)

HEALING PLACE FOR WOMEN DID LET ME IN, ALBEIT WITH ADVISO THAT THEY-TOO REALLY TAKE ONLY TRANNIES WHO HAVE BEEN ABUSED BY LIFE-PARTNERS

BUT

TO MY GREAT SADNESS I LEFT THERE, LARGELY REALLY EXCLUSIVELY BECAUSE I BUT WANTED TO 'TALK TO MY LAWYER,' SOCIAL JUSTICE MAVEN AND STATE REPRESENTATIVE NIMA KULKARNI; so walking out of Healing Place for Women on or about May 18, I spent serveral hard days semi- and actually- "rough sleeping," first in a bus shelter at the corner of Hill Street and 15th, then as ejected by a Cop Super-officer from Central Park, I collapsed in sheer exhaustion on a sidewalk east of that Park-south on Magnolia Street; then with a boost from Father Martin Martiny of St. Louis Bertrand Catholic, I got to deeply real rough sleeping down by the dam (McAlpine) at the Falls of the Ohio. . . Clubbed and whipped and pellet-gunned by homeless people at the homeless camp next to the dam, under I-64 overpass, I did convalescence as rather a 'safekeeper' at the Brook Psychiatric Center in the Dupont Hospital District in Louisville's eastmost part.

. . .Shelter then did come with wonderful aid from Ms. Kulkarni, George Eklund of the Coalition for the Homeless, and sidelong from a transgender advocacy group, name exactly never known to me, but in the representing person Oliver Hall, all all all and Wyatt _________ of Brook Hospital to get my utter gratitude!!!

Certainly, the shelter now provided-me (St. Vincent de Paul for men, 1034 South Jackson St. 40203) is NO RABIDLY TRANS-FRIENDLY PLACE; true the official policy is to take trannies and-- I think-- occasionally women cis-gendered. I dare not wear nail polish, I dare not have my hair styled-'girly'-- I better not take up a romance, even with a woman, but especially a man as I am regarded FAG QUEER and the only reason I am less subject to ribbing/hazing/verbal-abuse seems to be the policy of St. Vincent de Paul contra such vilification. FOR MY SAFETY, I was told, I HAD BETTER NOT WEAR A DRESS IN THE DORM, DESPITE MY FEELING THE-TRADITIONAL-WOMAN'S DRESS TO BE MY 'HABIT' YES IN VIRTUALLY A RELIGIOUS SENSE OF 'HABIT' (LIKE PRIESTS, DEACONS, AND MONKS, eh?)

IF I were unsheltered, though, I feel certain that I would the-more be subject to beatings, rapes, arrests, vulnerabilities-physical-mental-social that would not be the case as now at 'SVP'; yet there is great uncertainty about sheltered living, and there is no sure thing that I can hold-out sheltered before finding a new place to live, rather the better to say, BEFORE I FIND A NEW HOME.