Protecting Transgenders is Protecting Gays
Beyond Chron (http://www.beyondchron.org/articles/Protecting_Transgenders_is_Protecting_Gays_4987.html)
by Tommi Avicolli-Mecca, Oct. 09, 2007
The price I paid for my gender nonconformity was great. I was attacked by a group of young men one night in South Jersey, but luckily remembered my Quaker nonviolent self-defense training and ran out into the middle of a street screaming and waving my arms in the air. The kids ran off. Another time, I was with a transgender friend at State College in Central Pennsylvania for a speaking engagement and we were chased by bunch of guys. We found refuge in an all-night diner with a friendly waitress.