San Antonio Woman Assaulted; Police and Media Respond With Transphobic Excuses
by Cara on September 24, 2010
http://thecurvature.com/2010/09/24/san-antonio-woman-assaulted-police-and-media-respond-with-transphobic-excuses/ (http://thecurvature.com/2010/09/24/san-antonio-woman-assaulted-police-and-media-respond-with-transphobic-excuses/)
Trigger Warning for anti-trans violence, ungendering, victim-blaming, and police and media transphobia/transmisogyny.
Yesterday a man badly beat a woman who was riding in his car and then dumped her in front of an apartment complex before driving away, seemingly for no reason other than that she was trans. Though this is awful enough on its own, police and local media decided to add insult to that injury by fitting as many transphobic tropes as they possibly could into barely one hundred words. The KENS5 news story starts as follows: