Gang called me 'freak' and started to attack

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/8770915.Gang_called_me____freak____and_started_to_attack/
1/8/11

A TRANSSEXUAL believes she has been the victim of a hate crime after being attacked by a gang.

Miranda Lee, whose story about her sex change and battle for breast surgery has featured in the Echo and national press, was on her way home from a friend's house in Southend, when she was pushed off her mobility scooter and punched in the stomach.

QuoteMiss Lee said she suffers severe gender dysphoria – the condition which describes the feeling of being trapped in the body of the wrong sex. She has been on anti-depressants for a year.

She said: "People just don't understand, it is an illness and it is a serious issue.

GRRR. I'm not ill.

QuoteShe said: "People just don't understand, it is an illness and it is a serious issue.



GRRR. I'm not ill.

I quite agree. Perhaps, she had a poor choice for words. I'm hoping what she meant was that this is a serious medical condition, instead.

In any case, my condolences to her for the travesty that occurred. There is still so far to go to get others to treat us as real people. So very sad.

Dawn

QuoteAn Essex Police spokeswoman confirmed a woman in her forties was assaulted between 6pm and 7pm, in Rochford Road, on January 2.

No arrests have been made. She said: "If the victim perceives it to be a hate crime that is how we will treat it."

Of course it was a hate crime.  Even if she was not TS, she was on a scooter.  It should be a hate crime against the disabled.