Transgender Woman Attacked In D.c.

[Guest Sophie Jean]

Women and transgendered persons are the subject of attacks. Make sure when you go out, you buddy up and/or stay in well-lit areas with quick access to you vehicles. There are and will always be people who cannot accept us, and we don't want to give them the opportunity to abuse us. None of us want to wind up like the poor woman attacked in D.C. The following article is found on advocate.com. (http://www.advocate.com/news_detail_ektid48893.asp)

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Transgender woman attacked in D.C.

Washington, D.C., police are investigating an assault on a transgender woman in the northwest section of the city. Witnesses told WRC-TV, an NBC affiliate, that a group of young men who loiter in the neighborhood attacked the woman.

The assault occurred approximately after 6 p.m. on Thursday.

According to police reports, the unidentified woman refused care at a nearby hospital. (The Advocate)

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- Sophie Jean

[Guest mr_marc]

Jesus some people are jack asses.

The poor sod! Hope she's ok, cant say i blame her for not wanting to go to a near by hospital.

Why cant people just get it in their heads, every ones different so shove it? o.o

Marc xxx

P.S

Was probably my youth talkin their like but XD

[Guest Katie-Louise]

No ones deserves to be attacked in the street like that, I hope she is recovering Marcs right were all different just cant see why people cant accept that. I wish her all the best and lets hope they catch the people responsible

lots of love, Katie-Louise

xxxxxx

[Guest Lethalia]

Listen everybody, Sophie Jean is right: Buddy up and stay in well lit areas. This is important. I'm not trying to scare anyone unnecessarily. But really, isn't it better to be safe than sorry? My family trips on me because I do most everything alone at night. But I'm a night owl and I don't know anyone. I have been attacked and hospitalized many times. I could tell you some real horror stories. I'm not saying the world is an awful place. [insert Marge Simpson noise] But seriously, be safe and keep your wits about you… just in case. Don't make me send you to your room. OXO.

Hoping you are safe…

Isabella Lethalia Innocenzi

[Guest Ryles_D]

"Witnesses told". I love those lines. I really hope at least one came to her aid or tried.

yeah, it's a scary world. Even if you aren't trans you still run the risk of being assaulted like that. on the edge of campus 3 kids were mugged the other week. You really aren't safe anywhere.

[Guest Sheila]

strenth in numbers !!!

sheila

[Guest Sheila]

i thought i'd share this with you. i find this troubling. it's less than 100 miles from me. there are very bad people out there. i'm not going to let something like this deter me though. i'm not sure if i can post this here but here goes.

Two transgender people attacked in Michigan

In what appears to be a possible anti-transgender hate crime, police in Pontiac, Mich., are searching for two men in connection with an assault that nearly killed one victim. The two transgender women, ages 46 and 54, were attacked early Wednesday morning outside their home in downtown Pontiac, according to a report in The Oakland Press. "It appears that a vehicle followed them home," said Pontiac police sergeant William Ware. "They had left a bar downtown. The person [who attacked them] was calling them names and taunting them." An incident outside the Liberty Bar on Saginaw Street in downtown Pontiac may have involved the attackers, said Ware.

A friend of the victims, Cindy Kemp, told the paper that attacks on gays and transgenders have been rare in Pontiac. Crystal Witt, a victims' advocate of the Michigan gay rights group Triangle Foundation, also said Pontiac has not been the scene of such hate crimes. Kemp said the viciousness of the attack was easily apparent. Both victims were knocked unconscious, the paper reported. The 54-year-old victim was beaten so badly that "every part of her head was bruised or scraped or cut," Kemp said. "And she had two black eyes, a fracture in her lower eye socket and her jaw, and boot marks you can see down by her spleen." The second victim suffered 15 broken bones in her face, resulting in a weeklong hospital stay, the paper reported. (Advocate.com)

[Guest Madison_Always]

thats so mean. how could someone do that to another person? i hope their doing alright now.

[Guest NatalieRene]

thats so mean. how could someone do that to another person? i hope their doing alright now.

The sad fact is that ignorant people fear what they don't understand, they hate that they feel fear so they kill/beat/maim what causes them to feel this sense of fear.

I work in DC so this kind of hits close to home. Does anybody know what part of DC this happened in?

Some areas of DC are still very rough, and even in broad day light I will not go through and if I have to I won't stop fort he red lights; I'll pay tickets over stopping in the intersection in some of these places.

My prayers are with her.

Natalie