An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.
An angry mob allegedly beat them. The police charged them. The municipality voted for one of the most severe anti-trans bathroom ordinances in the country.
It’s infuriating that the mob just went on with their day.
I do wonder what the right wing fanatics are going to say about gun control when someone shoots a would be lynch mob dead.
Guarantee in this case it would be some BS about trans people being unhinged or the most likely mass shooters.
Yep, nothing would make the Heritage foundation happier than a trans person defending themselves from mob violence with a firearm. Gives them an excuse to start provoking pogroms
Bitch what do you think they’re doing? You think they can’t just make some shit up when its time? Please cut this victim blaming the fuck out.
Good behavior will not save you. Making them afraid might.
Are you replying to the right comment? You are agreeing with what they just said here.
Read more carefully.
cmbabul basically said, “trans people shouldn’t defend themselves, as that would just embolden bigots.” Primecf pointed out that bigots will just make shit up, as Republicans do when they pretend every mass shooter is trans.
cmbabul is demonstrating behavior found among some allies, where they nominally support trans rights, but get really uncomfortable with the idea of a minority group defending itself with lethal violence. Minorities are meant to be protected in a parental way by the majority. Minorities are not meant to have agency of their own, certainly not in the realm of self-defense.
Maybe that’s the subtext, but I don’t see how these two things can’t be true at once :
To me, both comments are compatible and don’t have a necessary contradiction.
That’s not at all what I said, they absolutely must arm and defend themselves, but it’s delusion to think the right will not use it as a cudgel to enact even more violence.
Predicting the behavior of the enemy isn’t telling anyone they should or shouldn’t do anything.
A+ reading comprehension
When the police is part of the mob, that’s how it is.
There’s so much it’s hard to keep track but wasn’t there already a recent story about a trans person who was iirc knocked down, pulled their gun, and was then charged with brandishing or something similar?
I remember hearing about this too, so I had to look it up, and yup. Happened in Wyoming:
https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/06/trans-people-second-amendment-wyoming-stand-your-ground.html
They want it classified as a mental health issue and deny gun rights to them.
Something something antifa radical left
Oh yeah all America needs is a mass shooting and they’ll enshrine gun control… Sure. \s.