Another California trans student attacked, trans community responds: #JD4PJI

TransAdvocate | Cristan Williams | 16 Nov 2013

Just a week after the Pacific Justice Institute (PJI) backed coalition turned in over 600,000 signatures to repeal protections for trans children in California, a trans student was caught on tape fighting for her life as a group of bullies attacked her. PJI is the ex-gay organization that recently bullied a Colorado trans kid to the brink of suicide. The attack comes days after a California genderqueer student was set on fire for wearing a skirt.

School officials say that the assault was the result of bullying. Police are investigating the incident as a possible hate crime. The trans student had reported the bullying just days before the incident occurred. Sources claim that the trans student pushed an abusive cisgender student away from her which is when as many as 3 cisgender students attacked.

Full article and video news report at link, above



#JD4PJI = Judgement Day for Pacific Justice Institute

Note: Disturbing images

Update

Hercules High Fight Involving Transgender Student Prompts School District Safety Meeting

A 16-year-old transgender student took to the podium Monday night to tell the school board about being bullied by three girls at school and how she felt she was left with no choice but to fight back.

"As I was telling her how she was being disrespectful and rude, she spits gum in her hand and throws it in my face," Jewelyes Guitierrez, a sophomore at Hercules High School told the West Contra Costa Unified School Board in Richmond. "It was just build-up, after build-up, after build-up and no one was there to really help me."

Jewelyes, who said she tried unsuccessfully to get help from her school's vice principal beforehand, ended up fighting with three girls at lunch on Nov. 15 - a fight that got captured on cellphone video, which shows some students pulling hair and pushing each other. Hercules police said Jewelyes started the fight by throwing the first punch.

Full article and video of the meeting at the link, above

I've told it to my school administrators many times - bullying exists only in environment where bullies think they can get away with it. They can scream about how awful it is until they're blue in the face, but no one's going to listen unless they DO SOMETHING when someone reports it.