Transgender Woman Critically Hurt in Bushwick Anti-Gay Attack, Police Say

[theHandpuppet]

http://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20141014/bushwick/transgender-woman-critically-hurt-bushwick-anti-gay-attack-police-say
Transgender Woman Critically Hurt in Bushwick Anti-Gay Attack, Police Say
By Serena Dai on October 14, 2014

BUSHWICK — A transgender woman was brutally attacked by a group of men yelling anti-gay slurs last week in what is being investigated as a hate crime, police said.

The victim, 28, was knocked unconscious by a Plexiglas board that was hurled at her by the four suspects on a street corner late Sunday night, the NYPD said. She also suffered a fractured eye socket, internal bleeding, and cuts to her head and face, police said.

The victim was walking down Bushwick Avenue near Halsey Street with another person about 11:20 p.m. when they saw four men who started making loud, anti-gay comments and began to follow them, according to the NYPD...

...One of the men then threw a Plexiglas board at the victim, striking her in the head and knocking her to the sidewalk while the others punched and kicked her, police said. The men then fled the scene.... MORE at link posted above.

[LostOne4Ever]

1. Another day another person attacked for being who they are

The woman did nothing to these men except exist.

The media often portrays transwoman and transmen as inhuman, as monsters....yet it was these men who were the real monsters.

[theHandpuppet]

2. Yes, and I haven't even posted all of the recent reports of these attacks

This was just one of them.

[LostOne4Ever]

3. There is so much hate against anyone who is not gender conforming

That I think that one day of rememberance is not enough.

[theHandpuppet]

4. Get this...

http://www.dailynews.com/general-news/20141015/hate-crimes-in-los-angeles-county-at-24-year-low-but-attacks-on-lesbians-and-transgender-individuals-are-up
Hate crimes in Los Angeles County at 24-year low, but attacks on lesbians and transgender individuals are up
By Brenda Gazzar, Los Angeles Daily News
Posted: 10/15/14

...Driving this decline is a more than 40 percent decrease in crimes targeting gay men as well as crimes targeting Jews in 2013 over the previous year, Toma said.

Juveniles are also showing up as a smaller percentage of hate crime suspects — less than 15 percent versus more than 40 percent in 2006 — and are the smallest age group for the first time in at least a decade, Toma said.

However, from 2012 to 2013 there was an increase in reported crimes targeting lesbians (11 to 25) — the second-highest number in the last decade — transgender persons (13 to 19), Asian/Pacific Islanders (12 to 15), Protestants (4 to 8) and Middle Easterners (4 to 5). All 19 hate crimes against transgender people were violent....

[theHandpuppet]

5. More reports of anti-LGBT violence

http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/lgbt/-Two-anti-LGBT-hate-attacks-in-Brooklyn/49326.html
Two anti-LGBT hate attacks in Brooklyn
2014-10-15

The New York City Anti-Violence Project has learned of an anti-gay hate violence attack that occurred Monday, Oct. 13 on Washington Avenue near Empire Boulevard in Crown Heights Brooklyn. According to media sources, a 33-year-old man was followed into his apartment building and attacked with a hammer by a man yelling anti-gay slurs. At this time, the suspect remains at large. The survivor was treated for injuries and then released.

This is one of two brutal anti-LGBTQ incidents that occurred within two days here in New York City, and the second alert that AVP has released Oct. 14. The first occurred on Sunday, Oct. 12 on Bushwick Avenue near Halsey Street in Bushwick, Brooklyn. According to the Gay City News, an unidentified 28-year-old transgender woman was walking with a friend when she was viciously attacked by four men using anti-LGBTQ slurs who beat her with a 2x4. She was transported to Elmhurst hospital where she is in stable condition, but at risk for having suffered permanent brain damage from the attack.

According to the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs' ( NCAVP ) most recent report on hate violence to which AVP contributed local data, reports of hate violence increased 26% in New York City against LGBTQ and HIV-affected people, continuing a four-year trend in increases.

AVP has reached out to Make the Road New York's Globe LGBTQ Justice Project, the Brooklyn Community Pride Center, New York City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito's office, the office of Councilmember Laurie Cumbo, the office of Public Advocate Letitia James, the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, and the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force, Community Affairs Unit, and the LGBT Liaison to the Police Commissioner.

Find out more about AVP at www.avp.org .

[Joe Magarac]

6. Bushwick Brooklyn? It seems to me there's a racial hate crime aspect to this as well. n/t

[theHandpuppet]

7. Watching Laverne Cox's special last night...

... one of the points she stressed is that among transgender community, being black greatly increases your chances of being the victim of violence or police harassment.