Lets End The Violence!

A trans-woman down in San Antonia TX was brutally beating and the police said it was probably a hate crime but that there was nothing that they could do. (You can read about it here) The said that because of Texas law only includes sexual orientation and not gender identity here hand are tied. They said that they only could charge the perpetrator with aggravated assault; however, they said that the assailant might be charged with the federal hate crime law. The federal law was passed this year added sexual orientation, mental disability and gender identity and expression to the federal law.

If you watch the video, the announcer said, “One man was in for quite a surprise when learning that the woman in his car was transgender.” He makes it sound like it was some how justified to beat up the woman. Nothing justifies violence! If the woman were part African-American or Jewish and the man found out and then assaulted her. Would the announcer have said the same thing? Would we have thought, “Oh she should have told him first!” Then why is it we think the woman should have told him that she was trans?

Lets stop the violence, lets stop the hate and bigotry.