Submitted 10 months ago by destructdisc@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/05/lesbian-teen-beaten-unconscious-robbed-at-mcdonalds/
Yet if we followed conservative logic, they want all trans people to use their birth assigned bathroom. But that means you’ll still have manly, bearded dudes walking into the women’s room because a lot of trans men are manlier than many cis men.
So even by conservative rules, you will still have people who very much look like cis men walking into the women’s room
They will cheer on the violence.
They want us in basements, closets, or graves.
Most don’t care which. Some won’t settle for basements.
You’re really missing the point still - the regressives want reasons to use their guns. They want reasons to hurt people.
This is the take I’m surprised isn’t talked about more. If the point is to keep “male passing” people out of women’s restrooms, then you have to accept trans men as men and let them use their assigned rooms as well. Like there’s no “win” condition for the right on this argument and idk why more people aren’t pointing this out. If they’re already clutching pearls over butch looking women, what happens when Elliot page strolls in with a suit jacket and no shirt on?
The point is to keep making non cis folks illegal, the rules are just stepping stones to the ultimate goal of eradication.
This conservative’s brain crashed just thinking of the concept
They don’t want trans people in bathrooms or anywhere else. They want to disappear trans people, either by re-assimilating them into their “designated” sex, or if they are too far gone, just plain old disappearing.
Exactly. They just don’t want them to exist and they don’t care how this happens. This is the ultimate impossible goal they’re trying to achieve. I feel awful for the lgbtq community, because violence against them will only get worse.
They don’t think in a logical framework, they just keep punching and mandating and screaming until the ick goes away.
Just another day in Chicago with the Dindonuffin crowd.
Hey you racist retard, have you considered suicide today? You should
Hit the gym
No martial arts goes farther
Do both. Both are good
Transphobia also hurts cisgender people.
I would know. I was hurt by it too. It doesn’t involve bathrooms btw.
This looks more like homophobic cunts rather than transphobic cunts.
These are all exactly the same people, if that’s not clear.
I really should’ve read the article better. But both are really bad for society.
The venn diagram is a near circle.
oh yea it does, one of my family members was misgendered as a man, eventhough she isnt, by an demographics that have a wierd reaction to asian people.
The more stories about this I hear, the more I just question the reason why gender norms even exist. And I mean that in general.
Like, what do you mean men shouldn’t act flamboyant and vulnerable? What do you mean little girls should always be seen playing with Barbie dolls (or in the context of my country, Fulla dolls)? Growing up, I never understood why making this distinction beyond the biological and sexual stuff was even necessary. Aren’t we all humans at the end of the day?
I’m not sure this had anything to do with transphobia. The attackers just sound homophobic; they probably saw her hair and don’t know or care that the slur they picked isn’t for girls. It’s sad that she’s going through this. Their girlfriends robbing them after they had been beaten down speaks volumes about what sort of people they are.
It generally really sucks to be a victim of a hate crime.
How sure are we that she was attacked because she was perceived as trans? This could be a simple mugging.
It sounds like it was more of a general biggotry thing than Trans, specifically m
How can there be a cis lesbian?
The adjectives cis and lesbian refer to different attributes. Cis refers to gender identity, so her gender matches her sex assigned at birth (in this case, a woman assigned female at birth). A lesbian refers to her sexual attraction, so a woman who is attracted to other women.
What confuses you about that?
You might be confused on the terms. Cis is the opposite of trans. You can be attracted to members of your same gender without being trans. It’s much more common to be cis and homosexual than to be trans.
I think you are confused on what cis means
The prefix cis- is Latin and means on this side of.
I’m still confused.
And so it continues…
Awful, just awful.
Y’all, don’t go anywhere without some means of self-defense. A pocket stun gun costs $20, or if you live in a country where they’re banned, carry a pocket corkscrew with a foil cutter on the end.
I have a slock, which is a lock on a piece of pantyhose. It can be untied and left in my bag and nobody will know what it is at an airport.
Two rolls of quarters are entirely legal to carry, and act as makeshift brass knuckles in a pinch.
Fitspacks are always a bad idea. If you want something legal to carry, start keeping your keys on a locking carbiner rated for rock climbing. If it has a kilonewton (kN) rating stamped in it, it is suitable. This won’t collapse on your hand and no amount of force any human is capable of generating will break it, but anyone whose nose you drive it into at maximum effort is likely to remember the experience. This should also be legal to carry anywhere.
Shattering your knuckles sounds like a bad idea, especially if your initial defense does not incapacitate your attacker, as it may render you unable to continue to fight back.
As Despoticun mentioned, a ‘tactical’ style flashlight or pen would be better options.
Definitely not a bad way to go in a pinch.
If you go this route then hammer, don’t punch. I hear that those small steel flashlights with the castellated heads are perfect for exactly that kind of swing.
Stun guns, while potentially being intimidating to a lone attacker, is surprisingly ineffective if actually used for defense.
Pepper spray, specifically the type that uses a stream instead of a fine mist, is far more effective at stopping an attack and giving an opportunity to escape.
I recommend POM pepper spray, personally.
It’s a good option, no doubt.
Yeah I’ve been hit by a few stun guns, but not the police kind. It hurts sure and it makes a scary noise, but if I were intent on violence they would not stop me.
This is more common still for trans people who are earlier on in their transition but the media doesn’t talk about it. This violence was intended for a trans person so why do people only care when it impacts the cis? This ultimately says that violence towards trans people is ok but that it is a problem when those who aren’t trans are impacted.
I see your point totally… the main people that are suffering are trans and that matters. This headline hopefully brings awareness to cis people, and maybe even make anti trans people think “hang on, there’s a risk to ME”. But it does miss that trans people are at horrible risk in so many ways
This violence was intended for a trans person
Did you read the article?
When she confirmed that she was indeed a lesbian woman, one of the individuals hit her
So, no.
And I’ve see n similar reports that did indeed involve trans people so… also no.
I dont understand why she engaged at all or what was to gain by sharing she was lesbian.
This is more common still for trans people
Not sure about this. There’s way much more cis women that trans women, so attacks on “trans women” could have more cis women victims just because of the number if cis vs trans women.
Purely as numbers, this isn’t crazy, but since the size of affected demographics is so different, you have to look at proportions rather than just figures
This ultimately says that violence towards trans people is ok but that it is a problem when those who aren’t trans are impacted.
For the people you want to reach with these kinds of stories, it is. I don’t think there’s much use in preaching to the choir.
TERFs will try to blame trans people for this.
Y’all Yankees spend more time complaining about TERFs than homophobes it seems
Why do you think that is
They’re already blaming black people for it because the perpetrator happened to be black
“This never would’ve happened in my christian fascist dictatorship… The perpetrator would have been white!”
cis lesbian
I guess I don’t know what cis means. Pretty sure I’m clear on lesbian, but I guess you never know.
I think a lot of people don’t. The word ‘cis’ seems to have been invented because some people object to the term biologically-female or biologically-male, but that’s generally what it means.
To add, cisgender is not that new of a word, it’s been around since the 90s in English. Using the term “biological male/female” is an immidate red flag as it carries with it the insinuation that trans identities are not ligitimate; you could just say “not trans.” Hence the heavy use by right wingers and bigots.
Cis and trans have existed since Rome was a thing
Cis = cisgender = she was assigned female at birth and is not transgender
Nice. I appreciate the simple explanation. And fuck this place for downvoting people looking for explanations. Just lemmy flavoured reddit dickheads.
Trans comes from “on the other side” as cis comes from “on the same side”.
If you know how to create an account and post here, you also know how to look up words.
Okay, I’ll never ask a question about anything I don’t know ever again.
Please suck my genitals on your way to go fuck yourself.
It’s about having a conversation. Who knows, maybe a bunch of people that were confused on terms learned from this.
You are clearly overestimating the American public education system.
Cis is short for cisgender. It’s the antonym of transgender. Has nothing to do with sexuality.
Cis-het would be cisgender, heterosexual.
Cisgender means “gender match (birth) genitals”
…trans lesbians also exist
ok but this happens to all kinds of americans dialy for no reason
This woman will never feel safe using a public restroom again.
A GoFundMe crowdfundraiser has since been launched to help with her medical bills and to afford a lawyer to press charges.
The US is utterly fucked. Nothing short of a revolution will save them.
Sarmyth@lemmy.world 10 months ago
It’s a nasty can of worms that never should have been opened.