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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.

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[–] [email protected] 70 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Police are investigating, but no arrests have been made.

They have surveillance footage and logs of so these people were from when they entered, surely. No arrests means they're choosing to not arrest.

[–] frostysauce 26 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is MPD we're taking about...

[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago

They’re too busy beating up unarmed black civilians.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 days ago

We are seeing Republican Rhetoric paying off for the bigots, Transpeople are no longer safe

[–] [email protected] 56 points 6 days ago (36 children)

Time to arm yourselves... Everyone

[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 days ago (1 children)

This is strikingly similar to how Jews were treated in pre-war germany

Time to learn from history and not give in easily

[–] [email protected] 39 points 6 days ago

LGBT people were treated the same way, this is how it starts.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Except if trans people defend themselves with firearms, they should expect to have the book thrown at them. It's not fair, it's fucked up, but it's something I could see happening.

Rules for thee, not for me.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

Always has been. Welcome to planet earth.

https://www.socialistra.org/

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 days ago

What the actual fuck. This is beyond words, and I hope those two women heal quickly. They didn't deserve that.

The wastes of human flesh that did this and cheered for it need to be jailed and put on a list like sex offenders. I know there's problems with that system but there's gotta be some kind of action people can do to help trans folks stay safe. A hate crime list would be a way to start.

I don't know about the legality of assembling one outside official channels, but people can pressure their states to make one since the infrastructure is already there.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Jesus, thats my worst nightmare.

Onlookers aren't just afraid to step-in, but actually all cheering for the oppressor.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

If hell was real maybe they'd re-live that moment and a subsequent moment of them all being hanged in the town square with everyone cheering for them to die for the rest of eternity.

[–] whotookkarl 18 points 6 days ago (1 children)

How much do you want to bet some of them saw a Russian psyop of a right winger getting attacked first on Twitter boosted by musk and believed it was real

[–] bitjunkie 5 points 6 days ago

If they're going to do this anyway, let's make it real.

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