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Cherno Biko is the co-founder of Black Trans Lives Matter, and this is something that Cherno appears to want to be something that defines them. Cherno has been active on social media, giving commentary on issues such as race and gender-related violence and advocating against the low average age for transpeople. While Cherno may wish that their activism defines them, there are other things that are more significant and salient.
Cherno admitted to the sexual abuse of a friend on social media a while back, but has since removed their admission from medium. The original post by Cherno can be found here (archive). Cherno and their victim agreed to have sex; however, in the middle of intercourse, Cherno pulled off their condom and re-entered, fucking their victim until ejaculating inside of them. Cherno wouldn't even spring for PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis; something that helps to block potential HIV infection).

Here's the highlights:
Cherno talking about wanting to make a non-binary baby with a transman, getting drunk and breaking the rules of "consent and safe sex".
Our relationship existed largely online and we bonded over all the little things only black trans folks can understand. After years of searching, I thought I found the second piece to the holy trinity I wanted to create, complete with a black trans man and our black non-binary baby.
I was wrong. He made it clear to me that some trans men do not wish to carry children and it’s not ok to fetishize them in that way. The first time we had sex I can barely remember, as it followed a night of drinking and smoking but I know that we broke two of the most important rules… consent and safe sex. When he told me that he felt used and violated, I immediately apologized and offered to support in whatever way I could.
Here is Cherno admitting to "technically" being an abuser and their fear of being "ammunition for our enemies to keep framing folks like us as predators" when folks like Cherno act as predators.
I was afraid that I had become the thing I feared the most, an abuser. And technically I did. I was filled with shame and guilt. In the days following I wanted to respond in all the ways my abuser didn’t. I listened more than I shared. I validated their feelings and answered all of the questions. I gave them space, read: “they blocked me on twitter.” But in April when their text messages became threatening and unhealthy I blocked their number, knowing that they would call me out on social media. After all it’s where we met but I was worried about the implications it would have on the movement. I didn’t want to become the ammunition for our enemies to keep framing folks like us as predators who need to be kept out of public bathrooms.
I dream a world where our black bodies are not criminalized because of sex work or HIV/AIDS
-Cherno in the Huffington Post (archive)
How can I march with cis black men against state violence, when the same fear grips me passing police offers as when I pass them?
-Cherno in Progressive (archive)
The transman that Cherno sexually abused dropped their texts with Cherno on social media (archive 1, 2).










All this considered, in an article where the Rolling Stone interviewed Cherno (archive), Cherno indicated concern over the prevalence of HIV infection in the transgender community. One could say it is disingenuous to quote stats which indict society's response to an issue while not doing their own part to address their own responsibilities.
Biko points to statistics that show trans immigrants are disproportionately detained and deported. (An investigation by Fusion found that 20 percent of confirmed cases of sexual abuse in immigration detention facilities are against trans detainees, as well.) They point to statistics that show trans women have some of the highest rates of HIV in the country, and to instances in which individuals have been prosecuted for their HIV status.
Considering Cherno's past as a sexual abuser it is interesting that Cherno advocates for the defunding of law enforcement (archive).
You know, we — we are at war with the police, but it's not a war that we are going to win with guns or violence. It's a war that we have to fight with love. The reality is that many of the freedom fighters who we look up to today, Harriette Tubman and Nat Turner, they would have been considered terrorists and so when we take a look at what is going on, now more than ever, we have to recognize that these issues are interconnected. I went down to Orlando to get information as Beyonce says but what they're not telling us is that the police killed the majority of the people at Pulse that night while trying to enter into the club and it's the same thing we were fighting against the 1969 at Stone wall so Black Lives Matter has three points. We need to defund, demilitarize, and disarm the police.
The cavalier response to potential HIV infection is surprising considering Cherno's work with the AIDS Resource Center Ohio.
Even while this story is public on social media, Cherno is on the Young Women's Advisory Council of the New York Women's Foundation (archive).
Social Media Links
https://twitter.com/ChernoBiko (http://archive.is/rPOm0)
https://plus.google.com/u/0/+ChernoBiko (http://archive.is/cq5kL)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7oMuW1xLYDnM6kMmBa7bbw/feed (http://archive.is/hEooe)
https://medium.com/matter/black-trans-alive-ca047d1f342a (http://archive.is/5umIB)
http://chernobiko.com/ (http://archive.is/8AAhA)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chernobiko (http://archive.is/lxJhT)
https://www.instagram.com/chernobiko/?hl=en (http://archive.is/h61bs)
http://chernobiko.tumblr.com/ (http://archive.is/nLw6U)
https://www.facebook.com/chernobiko/ (http://archive.is/IVuo8)