The film was so interesting to watch. I learned so much more about how transgender people of color are so abused when they are in jail. I really enjoyed getting to see a little bit about who Mrs. Major is, because she has been doing amazing work with the Transgender, Gender Variant, and Intersex Justice Project (TGIJP). What surprised me the most were the statistics that Major talked about. She said that about 58% of people in jail are Black and Latino, but that we only make up about 25% of the population within the United States. I was really surprised by that number. I knew that many of the people in jail were people of color, but I did not know just how much suffering transgender people went through in jail either.
From that point, I am wondering why is is that more than half of the people in jail are people of color. What I want to learn more about is, out of that percentage, how many of these people are part of the LGBTQ+ community, especially how many are transgender, because of all the abuse that they receive in jail? I also want to know why there is little to no coverage of the deaths and murders of transgender people of color? I have heard about it through other LGBTQ people, but I have not heard it once from a news report or article. I hope that this starts to change with the amount of transgender activists that are standing up to these injustices.