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陳佳慧 Chloe Tan 🏳️‍⚧️🍉🗝️

陳佳慧 Chloe Tan 🏳️‍⚧️🍉🗝️
@chloetankahhui

Jul 30, 2024
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PLEASE RT!! Harvey Chettiar, the autistic Brown Singaporean trans woman who has now been detained for 117 days in a men's prison and forcibly detransitioned, is now facing 9 strokes of the cane for resisting strip searches from male prison officers 1/5

URGENT, PLEASE RT: on 14 June 2024, myself, @Schrödinger's Catgirl (Joyce), and 49 others jointly signed a Plea for Prosecutorial Compassion for Singaporean trans woman Harvey. she now faces 9 strokes of the cane for resisting strip-searches by male prison officers. 1/ drive.proton.me/urls/00RF2C0S0
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE.
31 JULY 2024.

On 14 June 2024, we sent and released a Plea for Prosecutorial Compassion, signed by 51 people including both of us, addressed to Deputy Public Prosecutors Eric Hu Youda and Shaun Lim Sheng Kang, the Prosecutors handling the criminal case of Singaporean trans woman Vickreman Harvey Chettiar. The Plea traverses the events leading up to Harvey's arrest, and details the gender and sexual suffering, as well as physical infirmities, Harvey has experienced in pre-trial remand in a male Prison environment. As signatories to the plea, we asked the Prosecution to exercise compassion, and grant Harvey bail.

It is now a month and a half since the Plea was sent to the Prosecutors. Harvey has been remanded in Changi Prison for 117 days, and her suffering has intensified. It appears that the Prosecution has been inherently incapable of compassion, and the Court's appetite for destroying trans women has been insatiable.

We reproduce Paragraph 55 of our Plea...
strip searches are state-mandated sexual assault. which is why the state intends to violently punish a trans woman for resisting it. for the same reason her gender dysphoria diagnosis was revoked to forcibly inject her with testosterone 2/5 x.com/omyhangu/statu
last month, a Singapore Prison Service (SPS) psychiatrist revoked Harvey's gender dysphoria diagnosis, because she resisted the aforementioned strip-searches by male prison officers and does not show "deference to men". they are now injecting her with testosterone shots. 3/
do not forget that Harvey has been jailed simply for being late for a court appearance and is being held without bail. this is part of a larger plot by the Singaporean Christian far-right to destroy trans rights in Singapore by demonizing her 3/5 x.com/chloetankahhui
陳佳慧 Chloe Tan 🏳️‍⚧️🍉🗝️

陳佳慧 Chloe Tan 🏳️‍⚧️🍉🗝️
@chloetankahhui

URGENT Trans and queer rights are under attack in Singapore by US-funded Christofascists. They are demonizing an autistic Brown trans woman to get being trans classified as a mental illness. This will kill trans Singaporeans. Please RT this thread!! 1/10
the prison system is a huge part of how the state inflicts transphobic violence on trans people, esp trans women. Harvey's pre-trial detention is nothing less than torture. fire to the prisons. there is no trans liberation without prison abolition 4/5
for more info on Harvey's ongoing incarceration, as well as broader context on the Singaporean Christian far-right's attempt to crack down on trans rights with assistance from US fascists, see my thread of threads here: 5/5 x.com/chloetankahhui
陳佳慧 Chloe Tan 🏳️‍⚧️🍉🗝️

陳佳慧 Chloe Tan 🏳️‍⚧️🍉🗝️
@chloetankahhui

Since this thread is getting attention almost 10 months (!!) after I wrote it, here's a thread of threads to catalogue some new developments since I wrote it. Everything in the original thread is still accurate tho!
陳佳慧 Chloe Tan 🏳️‍⚧️🍉🗝️

陳佳慧 Chloe Tan 🏳️‍⚧️🍉🗝️

@chloetankahhui
TW/SG/US. Linguist, grammar antifa, demi🖤🩶🤍💜 transbian, anarchist. RT ≠ endorsement. She/her/他/伊。 解放巴勒斯坦!解散警隊!這世上沒有從天而降的英雄,只有挺身而出的凡人 REVOLUTION EVERYWHERE
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