Boys Don't Cry

[Bahzi]

'The whole deal'?  What deal would that be, exactly?  I don't think the media ever made Brandon out to be a saint, or if they did, I certainly never got that impression.  Hollywood skims over details, but the bottom line was, redneck attitudes and shoddy police work got a very young transperson killed.   Also, if I'd have had Brandon's trailer trash relatives, I'd have gotten the hell out of their town too, he was molested by his uncle for years for christ-sake, how well would they have taken to him transitioning?  Was Falls City a good choice?  Obviously not, but with that background it's hard not to be sympathetic, his background was a Maury Povich show.  Was he partially responsible for what happened to him?  Sure, but that's like saying a woman who's doing illegal intoxicating drugs deserves to be raped, the punishment hardly fits the petty crime.

[Brent123]

who wasn't hurting anybody

Writing checks and getting money for them under false pretenses does hurt people.

Yes I agree. That isn't a good thing.
I'm more talking about the trans issue.

I'm aware that Hollywood tends to just skim the top of the story and I'm sure there's much more to it then we know.

[Da Monkey]

Who cares if he was a saint or not? That's irrelevant to the fact that he got raped beat up and killed based on the fact that he was transgendered. Sure we can justify it by saying that we won't put ourselves in his situation but it doesn't matter. That type of thing can happen anywhere at any time to us.

I know a FTM guy who was at a bar with his girlfriend and these guys kept hitting on his girlfriend then asking questions like "wtf are you?" to him and he told them to leave them alone. When they didn't him and his girlfriend started to leave and as they were just outside the guys followed them and wouldn't leave them alone and he told them to back off obviously like any other person would and the guys kept asking 'wtf are you' to him and then the guys started to kick the ->-bleeped-<- out of him. They broke his nose and arm and repeatedly kicked him in the crotch asking wtf are you over again. And they only stopped because a cab driver pulled over and told them off and then dragged the guy into his cab and told him to the hospital.

Yeah that could also happen to a cis guy, getting the crapped kicked out of them but they must have targeted him also because he looked trans. who knows what would have happened if the cab driver didn't see. And this was in Southwestern Ontario, Canada.