Trauma still fresh for transgender beating victim
Chrissy Polis was beaten at Rosedale McDonald's
By Alison Knezevich, The Baltimore Sun
9:14 p.m. EDT, May 15, 2012
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The windows are wide open in the messy apartment, the afternoon sky darkening fast.
Chrissy Polis can't stand the Essex neighborhood outside, where everyone knows who she is. But she doesn't know how to get out, or where she'd go if she did.
"I just want to move because I want to see other things," she says.
There was a time when it seemed people from all over the country were talking about the 24-year-old. Many wanted to help her; others condemned her.