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.

    • Grimy@lemmy.world
      45·
      16 hours ago

      Dahlia and Jess were leaving the station when a man started yelling transphobic slurs at them, Amber Muhm, a rally organizer who spoke to both of them after the incident, told The Independent. Jess asked him to stop talking to them that way, prompting the man to “sucker punch” her. Dahlia then struck the man with her cane, Muhm said.

      Although the man was “knocked out,” four or five other people ran up and began to “mercilessly beat” the two transgender women, Muhm said.

      “People were cheering the attackers on,” Muhm said. Both of them were knocked unconscious and Dahlia was left with a broken nose while Jess suffered “multiple contusions” on her ribs

      Because you clearly didn’t actually read it.

        • Grimy@lemmy.world
          62·
          15 hours ago

          Which part makes you think the man yelling insults to strangers and then sucker punching them when called out on it makes him the victim?

          Or maybe it’s the five guys that ground pounded them, breaking a nose and ribs, that are the victims.

          Snowflake behavior. It’s crazy how triggered people get from a strangers sexuality, even as to defend gratuitous violence online.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      16 hours ago

      The single person who upvoted this comment didn’t make it four paragraphs into the article. The person who wrote it is a disgusting fucking liar.

        • Chozo@fedia.io
          43·
          16 hours ago

          Jess asked him to stop talking to them that way, prompting the man to “sucker punch” her. Dahlia then struck the man with her cane, Muhm said.

          Yeah, that’s some real “spin”, right there.

        • hope@lemmy.world
          14·
          14 hours ago

          It sounds like you’re just trying to be contrarian? Do you have any reason whatsoever to not believe the article? I understand doubting the article, but it seems you’ve just decided that it is exactly the opposite of the truth, which I don’t get.