“He started making fun of [a] friend for hanging out with me, saying, ‘Oh I didn’t know you were gay, I didn’t know you were a fag’,” she said.
As an activist for the LGBT community, Spence spoke up for herself and the man she was talking with.
Spence says it escalated quickly and the man punched her in the face. So, Spence says she punched him back and suddenly other people descended on her.
“One thing led to another and I was on the ground and the three of them were kicking me in the face,” she said.
“They were saying things like, ‘Faggot, tranny, bitch.’ Really, really mean things, like misogynistic things.”
While she was being attacked, Spence said she wasn’t sure she was going to make it out alive. While the beating felt like forever, her friends later told her it lasted about three minutes.
Was the attacker in this story “not taught” it’s not acceptable to assault people? Should the trans person have been calmly teaching him “this is unacceptable” as she was getting punched in the face?
If people need to be taught “punching people in the face is wrong” then they need to be locked up until they learn that, it’s not the roll of the general public.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/transgender-woman-from-nelson-house-attacked-1.3951040
Was the attacker in this story “not taught” it’s not acceptable to assault people? Should the trans person have been calmly teaching him “this is unacceptable” as she was getting punched in the face?
If people need to be taught “punching people in the face is wrong” then they need to be locked up until they learn that, it’s not the roll of the general public.