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AMY GOODMAN: What is your focus when it comes to police and educating police? What are the issues you have with police?
MYA LEILANI VAZQUEZ: Personally, it’s searching. You know, I prefer a female to search me, because I do prefer—like I am a woman. That’s how I feel. You know, as long as you talk to me in a proper tone and ask me questions, you’ll get something out of me. If you’re coming to me in a nasty attitude, then you’re possibly going to get, you know, me ignoring you or like, you know, running—whatever you have to do, you know. And you tend to be profiled when you’re out in the Village, you know, just for being trans. You know, I constantly get stopped and asked if I’m loitering with the intent of prostitution, you know.