Woman brutally beaten after suspect learns she’s transgender; San Antonio PD say

[Butterfly]

Woman brutally beaten after suspect learns she's transgender; San Antonio PD says no hate crime
Dallas Voice
23 September, 2010


http://www.dallasvoice.com/transgender-woman-brutally-beaten-san-antonio-police-hate-crime-1045535.html


How could this not be a hate crime?

A male suspect brutally beat a woman in San Antonio after learning she was transgender, KENS Channel 5 reports. The story doesn't provide much detail, but police told KENS the suspect and the victim had an "arrangement" and that he expected to "have a good time with her." But after he learned she was transgender, he beat her badly in the face and dumped her off outside an apartment complex, where she knocked on a door begging for help.

[V M]

It is very upsetting to me every time one of us is harmed or killed just for being a trans person

It's time to start putting the Fed. hate crime law passed last year into practice

[Octavianus]

Indeed, how can this not be a hate crime?

It is awful that things like this happen, But I am afraid this is only the tip of the iceberg. How many men would do the same but luckaly never find themselves in a situation like this? A few weeks ago I stumbled upon a topic on a local forum about a transgirl asking what the best way is to disclose herself to her friend and if she should do it at all. The reactions were horrible: they were actually justifying violence! It is one thing if a person acts when overthrown with emotions, but for calm people to say this? It is enfuriating.

It is weird that a few months ago I just didn't know of these hate crimes, yet now I somethimes can't take them of my mind making me wish I could do something about it.

I don't know if this videoclip of the panel discussion on human rights has already been posted:


Last Friday there was a similar panel:
http://www.arc-international.net/

[Summerfall]

Indeed, how can this not be a hate crime?