cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/22334414

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.

2 points

All self defense classes should be mma. If you are learning anything else you are wasting your time. Mma teaches you the footwork needed to stike on the feet, defend Takedowns, clinch and submissions.

permalink
report
reply
13 points

Some of these fucking comments, jeez. Interesting how its always the highly victimized populations who get the “Kumbayah” speech, and not the people who follow those populations around harassing them to use ANY response as justification for violence.

permalink
report
reply
34 points

Very Christian guys. I’m sure Jesus would love all this violence!

permalink
report
reply
17 points

“Jesus is a woke DEI hire and we don’t listen to that libshit.”

-American “Religious” Right

permalink
report
parent
reply
8 points

Middle eastern hippie Jew says be kind to each other and pay taxes! Nail to cross!

permalink
report
parent
reply
1 point

This is America. They’d shoot him or lynch him. We don’t like to waste time when we execute innocents.

permalink
report
parent
reply
25 points

I just don’t understand how so much hate can exist for your fellow person :(

permalink
report
reply
8 points

truly appalling & super sad :(

permalink
report
parent
reply
20 points

Oh, so one of the cities with the lowest levels of racial equality also has a problem with transphobia? I’m not shocked, I’m not surprised. Between this and the people in Springfield Ohio instilling fear in the towns Haitian residents, I will never understand how people can become so hateful.

permalink
report
reply
-2 points

I don’t understand why people think it’s a good idea to express themselves in a specific way if it WILL turn out badly for them. That’s just plain stupid and dangerous. Don’t get me wrong though, I fully believe people should be able to express themselves however they want. But that doesn’t mean one should walk around a warzone and think they wouldn’t get a bullet in their face because they oppose that war. Same goes for equality in a city without equality.

Stay safe.

permalink
report
parent
reply
7 points

People are emotional, tribal, creatures. It’s very easy for us to hate the out group. That was probably beneficial for pre-history humans, where the other tribe could be a real threat. It’s not so useful today, where “the other group” is just some people waiting for the train.

I think the best paths forward have to make people believe more people are in-group. That’s a reason why stuff like representation matters. People might be like “who cares if there’s a trans main character in a movie?”, but that helps people be less hateful. They don’t hate the character from the movie, they relate to them, and then a person in real life gets seen in that light.

permalink
report
parent
reply
19 points

It should not be forgotten that it was not the wider ‘people of Springfield’ who pushed that shit. There were certainly kooks/nazis in Springfield who were willing to say it, but the responsibility falls on the politicians/media organizations who maliciously propagated it.

permalink
report
parent
reply

Minneapolis - St. Paul Metro

!msp@midwest.social

Create post

About

A community for leftists and progressives within the Minneapolis - St. Paul Metro Area, including all suburbs and exurbs.

Community banner courtesy of @maven@lemmy.zip ❤️

Guidelines

  1. Be nice

  2. Comment substantively

  3. Probably some other stuff

Community stats

  • 294

    Monthly active users

  • 223

    Posts

  • 325

    Comments