It’s Hard

Trying to meet new people romantically is hard, Dating is hard and if you are trans it is even harder… and riskier.

Woman says she was beaten after telling date she's transgender
News4 San Antonio
By Ariana Lubelli

NEW BRAUNFELS, Texas - A date for a New Braunfels woman led to a bloody attack after she says she told the man that she was transgender.

Aliah Hernandez's story about the 2014 assault is now featured in Texas Monthly: June Edition.

"He told me he was going to kill me and he almost did," Hernandez said.

She met her attacker while working at a drive-thru window of a New Braunfels restaurant. He was a customer. The two went on a date that led to a motel and that's when she told him that she was transgender.

"He told me, '"I hate homosexuals,'" Hernandez said. "'I'm going to finish with your life. I don't want nobody to know that I was here with you.'"

According to Hernandez, she was beaten until the point of unconsciousness.

People say that you should tell them up front, but then you will never get a date.

Other say you should tell them on the first date but then you run the risk of violence.

The way I see it, it shouldn’t matter if you’re trans but in today’s climate of hate it doesn’t even matter is it in a dating situation, the haters have been giving a green light by the president for violence. Men are being taught to settle things with their fist or even a gun.

The police many time look the other way if you are trans and a victim of an assault and if you are trans in some parts of the country you can’t even get a conviction if you are assaulted because all it takes is one person on a jury to believe you had it coming to you if you are trans.

The person responsible is still a free man.