Summary
Two transgender women, Dahlia and Jess, were attacked at a Minneapolis rail station, with onlookers cheering their assailants instead of helping.
After confronting a man yelling transphobic slurs, the situation escalated into a violent assault involving four or five others, leaving both women unconscious.
Advocates attribute the rise in anti-trans violence to emboldened transphobia fueled by misinformation and political rhetoric, including Donald Trump’s anti-LGBTQ+ policies.
The local trans community is responding with solidarity rallies, self-defense classes, and firearm training to prepare for a potential increase in attacks.
Police are investigating, but no arrests have been made.
Which part makes you think the man yelling insults to strangers and then sucker punching them when called out on it makes him the victim?
Or maybe it’s the five guys that ground pounded them, breaking a nose and ribs, that are the victims.
Snowflake behavior. It’s crazy how triggered people get from a strangers sexuality, even as to defend gratuitous violence online.