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.
The majority of lemmy users do not support gun ownership. This is just a flat out lie.
You can search for gun, and you’re flooded with heavily upvoted antigun rhetoric. Let’s stop pretending it’s even remotely progun.
I’m all for arming people, an minority is harder to oppress.
*citation needed
If your talking about the Meal Team Six posts, those people deserve ridicule.
Absolutely, but there isn’t a need for AI images like that when people already do that shit anyways. Those people absolutely get trashed even on the progun side of things. We love to make fun of them.