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UT: Cisgender Student Under Police Protection as Trans Panic Rages On (www.assignedmedia.org)
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[–] agent_flounder 51 points 1 year ago

The fear and humiliation these cisgender girls are being subjected to is real, and deserves to be addressed. However, it also underscores the threats of violence that are increasingly darkening the lives of transgender people, particularly transfemmes, nationwide. If the mere possibility that a girl might be transgender is enough to spur such an extreme outpouring of rage the danger an actual transgender girl would face in similar circumstances is hard to overstate.