#corrected information

Thank you for telling me this. I looked it up and you’re right that the story is wrong but it seems that it’s even more ridiculous than what you think. Source here. 

Bier’s sympathetic rumor had become conventional wisdom by Thursday’s Council meeting, and a subsequent press release by Equality Texas was headlined in part, “Her death can be directly attributed to lack of shelters accepting of transgender homeless.”

In fact, a somewhat embarrassed Bier says now, that’s not true. She says she had confused a story she’d heard about another transgendered woman’s bad experience at a local shelter with Gale, and that she has since contacted both the Salvation Army and the Austin Resource Center for the Homeless, and learned that both shelters do what they can to accommodate all homeless people, regardless of gender status although they do have to adjust accommodations to particular circumstances. “I think I was trying to call attention to the problem of trans women accessing services,” Bier said.

Although we’re still inquiring, there is in fact currently no evidence that Gale was ever refused shelter, or indeed that she had ever requested it.

It expanded that you were right that Gale was told to go to the male shelter but ultimately refused to. It also has no connection to the salvation army as Gale was found in front of a church instead. 

This story is insane. I guess Gale wanted to die a martyr? I would go almost anywhere to be out of the cold in a life or death situation, even if it meant there was a chance I could get hurt because at least I was alive. But we will never really know what Gale was thinking at the time and the incorrect information isn’t helping anything. 

It was a friend that started everything so it may have been their idea to start this. 

Marti Bier, a policy aide for the Austin City council memberRandi Shade, directly attributed Gale’s death to the Salvation Army,saying, “Something Jennifer would never talk about, but was a realityfor her, is that she is a transwoman living in a transphobic society.Homelessness in the trans-community is a really big problem, and onethat goes ignored. There are no laws in Texas protecting transgenderpeople, whether from job discrimination, housing discrimination or hatecrimes,” and “The Salvation Army would not let her in there unless shewas grouped with the men. They would make her use her male birth nameand completely disregard, and disrespect, her identity as atrans-woman." 

Bier later partially retracted those comments, saying "So what Iwrote the other day about trans-services may not have been entirelyaccurate. I have since spoken with people at both the ARCH and theSalvation Army here in town to learn what they do for homelesstransfolks. It turns out the ARCH, while a men’s only shelter, isactually pretty educated on the issues and accepts people as theypresent themselves. While this wouldn’t have helped Jennifer Gale exceptfor day-sleeping, it is certainly respectable. They will also providefor privacy in the restrooms/showers for transfolks. The Salvation Armyon the other hand… they do apparently have a policy ofnon-discrimination and they do not turn trans people away, but I’m notfully sold on their ability to actually understand the issue. If theyare not full they will give trans people privacy (maybe they haveprivate quarters of some sort), but if full and they are in an overflowshelter situation, as they were Tuesday night, I am under the impressionthat they will assign people according to their anatomy.”

I’ll be starting my Smallpox reading tomorrow

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