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Title: A mob viciously beat a trans couple. Now the couple is facing prison time.
Post by: Jessica_Rose on August 05, 2026, 06:28:06 PM
Post by: Jessica_Rose on August 05, 2026, 06:28:06 PM
A mob viciously beat a trans couple. Now the couple is facing prison time.
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/a-mob-viciously-beat-a-trans-couple-now-the-couple-is-facing-time/
Daniel Villarreal (5 Aug 2026)
Near the end of a lakeside barbecue with friends at Cypress Black Bayou Park, Shae Sanders (a nonbinary person assigned female at birth) used the women's restroom just as they usually do. As their partner, Aurora Rush, waited outside for them, a man approached her, used slurs against her, threatened to beat her up if she entered the women's restroom, and tried to get her to fight, trans journalist Erin Reed reported.
When Sanders exited the restroom, a crowd of at least 10 men and women had formed around Rush, blocking their exit, calling her a "trny" and a "fgot," allegedly threatening to murder her, saying they'd stop her from using the restroom by "any means necessary," and proclaiming that their violence would protect children.
The mob then beat Sanders so badly that an ambulance later transported them to the hospital, where they received four stitches above their eye — doctors are trying to determine whether a neurostim brain implant in their shoulder may have been damaged during the attack, the result of which could kill them, Reed wrote.
Rush had a concussion, a corneal scratch that temporarily blinded her in one eye, "massive welts" (including "one knot above her knee swelled to the size of an apple"), and pre-existing disabilities. But even though she has a female gender marker on her driver's license, police threw her in a men's jail under a man's name she had never heard of. (She said the name she was booked in jail under belonged to one of her male attackers.)
The couple claims not to have fought their attackers. Nevertheless, police have since charged Sanders with one count of disturbing the peace (punishable by up to six months in prison), and Rush with one count for "fighting" and another for "offensive language" (punishable by up to a year in prison), Reed wrote. It's unclear if police arrested any other individuals. The couple has pledged not to agree to any plea deals.
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That attack occurred within a few miles of where I grew up. My parents lived on Black Bayou Lake for over 40 years. After my parents passed away, people asked me why I didn't want to keep the house. This is why...
Love always -- Jessica Rose
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/08/a-mob-viciously-beat-a-trans-couple-now-the-couple-is-facing-time/
Daniel Villarreal (5 Aug 2026)
Near the end of a lakeside barbecue with friends at Cypress Black Bayou Park, Shae Sanders (a nonbinary person assigned female at birth) used the women's restroom just as they usually do. As their partner, Aurora Rush, waited outside for them, a man approached her, used slurs against her, threatened to beat her up if she entered the women's restroom, and tried to get her to fight, trans journalist Erin Reed reported.
When Sanders exited the restroom, a crowd of at least 10 men and women had formed around Rush, blocking their exit, calling her a "trny" and a "fgot," allegedly threatening to murder her, saying they'd stop her from using the restroom by "any means necessary," and proclaiming that their violence would protect children.
The mob then beat Sanders so badly that an ambulance later transported them to the hospital, where they received four stitches above their eye — doctors are trying to determine whether a neurostim brain implant in their shoulder may have been damaged during the attack, the result of which could kill them, Reed wrote.
Rush had a concussion, a corneal scratch that temporarily blinded her in one eye, "massive welts" (including "one knot above her knee swelled to the size of an apple"), and pre-existing disabilities. But even though she has a female gender marker on her driver's license, police threw her in a men's jail under a man's name she had never heard of. (She said the name she was booked in jail under belonged to one of her male attackers.)
The couple claims not to have fought their attackers. Nevertheless, police have since charged Sanders with one count of disturbing the peace (punishable by up to six months in prison), and Rush with one count for "fighting" and another for "offensive language" (punishable by up to a year in prison), Reed wrote. It's unclear if police arrested any other individuals. The couple has pledged not to agree to any plea deals.
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That attack occurred within a few miles of where I grew up. My parents lived on Black Bayou Lake for over 40 years. After my parents passed away, people asked me why I didn't want to keep the house. This is why...
Love always -- Jessica Rose