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.

  • @Duamerthrax
    1•4 hours ago

    Your first comment in this chain is surprise about the up votes for support for armed self defense, you then insist that Lenny users don’t support gun ownership… Clearly Lemmy users support self defense. The push back I see comes from people bringing their assault rifles to do grocery shopping like some emotional support dog.

    Also, an anti gun Queer person from ten years may have changed their stance by now as the situation gets more desperate. There’s no clear path for disarming every citizen and when even the State is directly hostile to your existence, you may decide that the safest path forward is to level the field.

    Also, the ToS/laws comment is about what you may need a gun for that’s not exactly legal, but again, when the State makes your existence illegal, that stops being important.

    Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary

    Karl Marx

    • @SupraMario
      1•2 hours ago

      The majority of lemmy users do not support gun ownership. This is just a flat out lie.

      You can search for gun, and you’re flooded with heavily upvoted antigun rhetoric. Let’s stop pretending it’s even remotely progun.

      I’m all for arming people, an minority is harder to oppress.

      • @Duamerthrax
        1•2 hours ago

        *citation needed

        If your talking about the Meal Team Six posts, those people deserve ridicule.

        • @SupraMario
          1•1 hour ago

          Absolutely, but there isn’t a need for AI images like that when people already do that shit anyways. Those people absolutely get trashed even on the progun side of things. We love to make fun of them.