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
      65·
      5 days 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
          81·
          5 days 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.

        • TachyonTele@lemm.ee
          44·
          5 days ago

          Try to actually think about what you read instead of just consuming it blindly.

          …Ogmios yelled into the mirror, knowing full well they were completely wrong.

    • TheTechnician27@lemmy.worldEnglish
      38·
      5 days 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
          551·
          5 days 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
          20·
          5 days 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.

          • Ogmios@sh.itjust.works
            241·
            5 days ago

            The reason is that the ‘journalist’ uses intense emotional language to highlight only one side of the story, while completely glossing over the fact that their ‘victim’ literally knocked someone out with a weapon. Any rational person ought to at least raise an eyebrow while they consider what could have provoked bystanders to jump in, when presented with that fact.

            It’s really obvious rage bait.

            • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
              21·
              5 days ago

              What emotional lanuage do you mean, “sucker punched” maybe? Thats a pretty damn neutral recounting, come tf on.

                • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world
                  181·
                  5 days ago

                  Turns out that describing hate crimes objectively inherently uses “leading language” since it’s a societal problem that only bigots don’t mind.

                  And thinking that The Independent, a well-respected broadsheet, is a tabloid is quite indicative of exactly how much you know about anything you’re talking about 🙄

            • treefrog@lemm.ee
              9·
              4 days 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.

              She was attacked and then defended herself.

              You don’t believe trans women should be able to defend themselves? Or don’t believe in self defense more generally?