A 19-year old cis lesbian woman was beaten unconscious and robbed after she tried to use the women's restroom at a McDonald's in the US
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Awful, just awful.
Y'all, don't go anywhere without some means of self-defense. A pocket stun gun costs $20, or if you live in a country where they're banned, carry a pocket corkscrew with a foil cutter on the end.
Stun guns, while potentially being intimidating to a lone attacker, is surprisingly ineffective if actually used for defense.
Pepper spray, specifically the type that uses a stream instead of a fine mist, is far more effective at stopping an attack and giving an opportunity to escape.
I recommend POM pepper spray, personally. The smaller versions are 50 state legal.
Two rolls of quarters are entirely legal to carry, and act as makeshift brass knuckles in a pinch. The additional mass will make you break your knuckles, but you'll be shattering their bones as well.
"This should have never happened just because I am the way I am, and it should have never happened just because I was just trying to use the bathroom. But I don’t want people to be scared to stand up for themselves because they think that someone will hurt them all the time,” she told LGBTQ Nation. “I want to be seen as someone that is strong because they tried to ruin my life, but instead, they ruined their own.”
This is more common still for trans people who are earlier on in their transition but the media doesn't talk about it. This violence was intended for a trans person so why do people only care when it impacts the cis? This ultimately says that violence towards trans people is ok but that it is a problem when those who aren't trans are impacted.
This ultimately says that violence towards trans people is ok but that it is a problem when those who aren't trans are impacted.
For the people you want to reach with these kinds of stories, it is. I don't think there's much use in preaching to the choir.
This is more common still for trans people
Not sure about this. There's way much more cis women that trans women, so attacks on "trans women" could have more cis women victims just because of the number if cis vs trans women.
A GoFundMe crowdfundraiser has since been launched to help with her medical bills and to afford a lawyer to press charges.
The US is utterly fucked. Nothing short of a revolution will save them.
Why the fuck does she need a lawyer to press charges? Assault is a crime against the state. It's supposed to be the police and the state prosecutor who deal with this.
The state will fail to accomplish anything meaningful in prosecution - a bad deal or bungled case. Plus there's the notoriety the case is already generating. She'll need to file a civil suit as well, and she'll need someone making sure everything is OK on her end (the attacker doesn't counter-sue for instance).
I've been the victim of hate crime, you think you're gonna get a justice boner and fight it to the core, but in reality the simplest/safest answer for the victim is to shut up and make it disappear. You're already traumatized, fighting is confusing and painful.
The reply you got is spot on, and so are you. Often, you don't get choice as a victim, the state/county/city/whatever is charging a crime whether you like it or not.
We already had a revolution, we let the conservatives live and breed until they won the elections, Idiocracy
The revolution would be led by nazis who think trump is too soft
This woman will never feel safe using a public restroom again.
Not should anyone, in places like this! Yokes! Yikes, even!
But 'you can always tell'...
cis lesbian
I guess I don't know what cis means. Pretty sure I'm clear on lesbian, but I guess you never know.
Cis = cisgender = she was assigned female at birth and is not transgender
Cisgender means "gender match (birth) genitals"
Trans comes from "on the other side" as cis comes from "on the same side".
A trans woman who's attracted to other women would be a trans lesbian, if that's what was tripping you up.
Cis is short for cisgender. It's the antonym of transgender. Has nothing to do with sexuality.
Cis-het would be cisgender, heterosexual.
If you know how to create an account and post here, you also know how to look up words.
You are clearly overestimating the American public education system.
ok but this happens to all kinds of americans dialy for no reason
The reason so many people down voted you and this got reported so many times is likely a combination of:
I don't think you're actually trying to be bigoted, but figured if I wasn't going to remove your comment I should at least try to clear things up.
Oh, well I guess rampant violence excuses their bigotry
Yes, your country is a fucking armpit for a number of reasons (I think at last count 347089088 reasons). But it'd be real cool if bigotry wasn't one of them.
They are called a faggot and then are beaten bloody for it?
Huh?