Transgender coalition claims cop harassment

A clipping from the San Francisco Examiner about police harassment and strip-searching of transgender people, often on the pretense that they are sex workers. People mentioned include Victoria Schneider and Nadia Cabezas, who hosted public-access cable television show Tranny Talk as Kitty Castro. This item comes from the Victoria Schneider papers at the GLBT Historical Society. Schneider is an intersex activist and former sex worker best known for her 1997 lawsuit against the City and County of San Francisco, concerning an unlawful strip search during her booking at the San Francisco County Jail.

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Identifier: kk91fk96d
Collection: Victoria Schneider Papers
Institution: GLBT Historical Society
Creator(s): Herron Zamora, Jim
Publisher: San Francisco Examiner
Date Issued: Apr. 8, 1999
Genre: Clippings
Subject(s): Nadia Cabezas
Victoria Schneider
Places: California > San Francisco County > San Francisco
Topic(s): Gender expression
Intolerance towards LGBTQ+ people
LGBT activism
Police harassment of LGBTQ+ people
Trans women
Transgender people
Resource Type: Text
Language: English
Rights: Copyright undetermined
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