Crowd cheered as two transgender women were attacked in Minneapolis, advocates say - eviltoast
The pair moved from Iowa to Minnesota last year under the 2023 ‘Trans Refuge’ law, according to a rally organizer

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.

  • jas0n@lemmy.world
    6·
    1 month ago

    Lol. He is too busy fucking with you too explain. The NRA strawman is “they’re coming for your guns.” They’ve built their entire organization around that BS. It’s easy to look at a country like Iceland, see their murder rate and think, “fuck, why can’t we do that?”

    But it wouldn’t work in the US. Guns are a part of the culture… it’s in the constitution… bla bla. Most people on the left (obviously, not everyone) are able to do the math and realize, the US is not Iceland. What most people want is the bare minimum restrictions on them. And the other side says, “any restriction at all is one step away from THEY’RE COMING FOR YOUR GUNS!”

    You sound like you actually want the government to go take people’s guns, thus, fueling the strawman.

    • SupraMario@lemmy.world
      15·
      1 month ago

      You sound like you actually want the government to go take people’s guns, thus, fueling the strawman.

      You replying to the right person? Cause i sure as fuck am not this person at all. I’m very pro-2a, like nearly 0 restrictions, pro-2a.

      • jas0n@lemmy.world
        3·
        1 month ago

        I replied to the right person, but I did misread what you wrote. I should have said “you think Lemmy users want the government to take people’s guns.”

        • SupraMario@lemmy.world
          15·
          1 month ago

          Ah, well in that case…yea I do think that because the majority would be completely fine with it. That’s not something that’s hard to fathom. Plenty would be fine with having gun owners thrown in jail for not giving up their guns.