17-Year-Old Trans Teen Found Burned With Signs of Strangulation in Sugarcane Field
Luan was a 17-year-old trans boy. When authorities recovered his body, injuries to his neck and face, blood, burns and preliminary forensic observations pointed to severe violence before his death.
Firefighters had extinguished flames in the field before Luan was discovered face down and partially undressed. Police documented possible drag marks and tire marks nearby and collected a sandal, necklace and phone-charger cable from the area. Those physical traces became part of the homicide investigation, but the available record did not determine whether Luan died at that location or was brought there afterward.
In the days that followed, Civil Police sought surveillance footage and information about vehicles that may have traveled near the area. Rain had affected portions of the scene, adding another obstacle to efforts to preserve and examine potential evidence. No suspect had emerged in the latest verified reporting.
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All of these religious people who say horrible shit about trans people and make their lives hell embolden and enable this sort of violence, then try to wash their hands of it: "Oh, well, we just didn't want them to use certain bathrooms or read stories, we love Jesus and didn't want this." Fucking hypocritical assholes. All of Christianity is a cesspool of uncompassionate illogical dross.
This was an atrocity. The US needs to change.
You're the problem, shit bag.
Your transphobic god does not exist.
Allies don't come dressed in black or white. Your life will be more complete if you accept help.
People who pretend god is real are not allies.
My life was utterly ruined for your cowardice.
You don't get to decide how allies present themselves, my friend.
Go fuck yourself.
People who believe their fake god is more important than my real life are not my ally.
In fact, they are death cultists, and the enemy of all life.
Think about it. Ask if you have questions.
It disgusts me that there are people that can do this to someone and go about their lives normally afterward
Man, you really don't wanna know the statistics on how many murders actually get solved...
They walk among us.
Most of them wear suits and kill thousands.
It's the banality of evil.
I don't think that's what that means.
Never forget what they are inside
Never forget they often claim to be Christian.
They ARE Christian. The peace love joy shit was always a lie.
Mark 12:30 And you shall love the Lord your God from your whole heart, and from your whole soul, and from your whole mind, and from your whole strength. This is the first commandment.’
Mark 12:31 But the second is similar to it: ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is no other commandment greater than these.”
Jesus lied to everyone. Is that what I should do?
Jesus did not invent the golden rule, dumb fuck. Nor did he live by it.
He lived by it.
Matthew 5:44 But I say to you: Love your enemies. Do good to those who hate you. And pray for those who persecute and slander you.
Matthew 5:45 In this way, you shall be sons of your Father, who is in heaven. He causes his sun to rise upon the good and the bad, and he causes it to rain upon the just and the unjust.
Matthew 5:46 For if you love those who love you, what reward will you have? Do not even tax collectors behave this way?
Wrong.
And he didn't do that. Death threats in Luke 13:
"I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish."
And in Mark:
"Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned."
And in John:
"Whoever believes in the Son has eternal life; whoever does not obey the Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him."
And in Matthew:
"But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother will be liable to judgment; whoever insults his brother will be liable to the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be liable to the hell of fire."
He explicitly denied forgiveness in Matthew:
"And so I tell you, every kind of sin and slander can be forgiven, but blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven."
Telling people to fear him in Matthew 10:
"And do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell."
Condoning slavery and beating slaves in Luke:
"And that servant who knew his master's will but did not get ready or act according to his will, will receive a severe beating. But the one who did not know, and did what deserved a beating, will receive a light beating."
How does one live by this bullshit? "The sun comes up. Good and bad people get rained on." So?
Matthew 10:
"“Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to set a man against his father, and a daughter against her mother, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law. And a person's enemies will be those of his own household."
And you're conveniently ignoring that all of Jesus's "love" was founded on "OBEY ME OR SUFFER".
Two Corinthians: that's a nice plot of land you have there, too bad you're bloody HEATHENS!
This is devastating. It's scary to think how this all happened.
Rest peacefully x
There's no peaceful rest, just the eternal silence of death.
Was that really necessary?
Yes, as it's the truth. Don't entertain fantasy to deny reality.
“Rest peacefully” is a nice sentiment, it is not espousing or promoting fantasy to deny reality. Read the room.
Hot damn, you're the first person that actually knows the truth about what happens after death?! Wow. So, how many times have you died?
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yeah you’re an authority huh?
Stop diluting righteous anger with pleasantries.
They're not resting peacefully, they're just dead.
Either be fully and justifiably angry at the reality of what has happened, or don't.
The people who did this don't deserve to be amongst us.
I appreciate your honesty and integrity.
i’m not diluting shit i’m just as pissed as you are
but i’m also not some edge lord tryna be edgy for fake internet points
you angry? do something about it, get the fuck off the internet, get to the streets and start fixing the problem
otherwise take your pesemistic attitude and fuck right off.
and no one knows what death is like until they’re dead, you and the pope are equal in authority on the subject, no one really knows
Speaking truth is not being edgy.
Says a lot that you think it is.
Here are 5 truths:
They’re dead.
We don’t know what happens after death.
People are miserable and some need hope
If my loved one was lost I would hate to see someone say that they’re nowhere.
You’re being an asshole.
That's one truth and two opinions at best.
Jesus fucking Christ
Seriously. The world really could use some hippie love right about now. Live and let live.
Know what, fuck that. The people who do this don't have an ounce of love for their fellow man. They deserve what they dish out.
I think you misunderstood me. I'm not saying the perps need sympathy, I'm saying that all these people who think they can dictate how other people should live their lives need to chill the fuck out, get high, relax, and just let people be people.
No I understood. Am I'm responding with they'll never ever do that.
Anti-queer Christians go to Hell. Simple as that.
Christ isn't real, hell isn't real, god isn't real.
Everyone should grow the fuck up or we all die.
Simple as that.
You must be fun at parties.
You must be suicidally stupid.
Stop taking us down with you.
Maybe don't be a rude asshole? That's probably why you have no friends. Total lack of social skills and awareness.
All those flock cameras and ALPRs weren't about protecting the children if you can't find cars dragging a child out on the streets then right
Are allies gonna start speaking up for trans masculine people and trans men because if not then I don't care anymore. People forget that trans masculine people and men grow up dealing with misogyny and violence too and it never goes away for most but you only ever hear about trans women needing protection and I'm sick of it.
Every trans person needs protection from these psychopaths
Come on. I'm a trans woman. But this reply is just "all lives matter."
No shit. Some trans people don't even get counted in the statistics because they get labeled as a femicide when it's a trans masculine person. We never hear as much support for trans masculine people as we do for trans women. Way to water down what I just said.
i might get crucified for this but anyway, i don't understand why we have to spread the word of every trans person who gets murdered
as a trans person, it makes me feel like shit hearing about this kind of stuff all the time and i'm probably not the only one
Because most people think hate crimes are overblown and that lynchings are some obscure relic of the past and not something that still occurs regularly.
Victims of hate crimes deserve their stories being told. If it makes you uncomfortable good, hate crimes should do that.
this is rather insensitive. you're basically saying that people have a moral obligation to constantly expose themselves to things that make their mental health worse
You do not have the right to remain comfortable. Your comfort should never take priority over the real world, and if it does then your comfort is at the expense of real people's lives. That is literally the main problem with the society of the imperial core, we care about our comfort so much that it keeps us complacent even during times of genocide.
EDIT: Rephrased for comprehension
If you had to hear about every bad thing happening 24/7 that would be a constant stream high pitched noise running many times faster than you could even comprehend the words. We compartmentalize because there's only so much information (of any kind) our brains can reasonably process,
what a vile thing to say to a minority
For context since we're playing that card I'm also trans.
then you should know that we all already are hyperaware of how fucked up the society we live in is, every single one of us are completely aware that this is happening and that a lot of us have mental issues from existing in this hateful society and that this kind of stuff affects some people A LOT more than others, depending on how bad your mental state is to begin with and how empathetic you are
shame on you, seriously. shame on you
This is why I don’t post this news in trans communities. It’s in news comms where we hear of countless horrible things everyday.
Cis people need to hear this and understand that we are an extremely marginalised group suffering hate. We are such a small minority that we can never improve this on our own without them.
Imagine if people went silent on Gaza and stopped posting about all the deaths there. Would that be a good outcome?
Nobody's making you engage with the world but it isn't going to stop turning on your behalf. If you feel more comfortable in ignorance then by all means live in it but it's absurd to suggest that public discourse should cater to your sensibilities.
No, every single one of these souls deserves to be remembered and avenged
The world is quantum. We need to pay attention to these atrocities for change to happen. See below for references
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmett_Till
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Shepard
I am also asking myself, if it is of any relevance to tell readers, if the person was trans or not. At least at this stage, the motivation for the crime is unknown.
Does this raise awareness, or will the opposite happen? I really can’t tell.
The source is a trans-focused site, so yes it's relevant to the readers.
Oh, I did not check that. Then yes, super relevant in that case.