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“Do you feel good for ‘deceiving’ men?” a disgruntled young man wielding a metal bat shouted, while gently increasing his pace towards us.

*Clunk, clunk*

There it was, the sound of low-key intimidation. It was as if he was reading from a script off of the countless articles of trans women being beaten and murdered in the U.S. Like this moment was meant to happen. It was clear that the next 60 seconds would determine if I had a girlfriend to wake up to tomorrow. If we’d be #14 and #15.

“My bullet will reach you faster than the police, pussies!”

How did we get here?

A question that is asked by writers who often misgender victims while in the same breath they’re dumbfounded by how this could happen.

This thought is mourned by mothers and fathers who bury their children in clothes that would make any trans person rather be dead than alive in.

After decades of Jerry Springer and shemale porn sponsored by Grooby, we’re still too fucking clueless to realize why casting Matt Bomer as a trans woman in a major motion picture is another dangerous and lethal move by well-meaning liberals.

I’m not deceiving anyone. We simply exist, breathe and love like any normal human being. But between Hollywood and poorly filed police reports, it gives off that impression. When you’re on hormone replacement for years, your bones become more fragile than cis women. So when someone hits you as if you were a man, it’s a lethal blow. These institutions are complicit for the violence we’re facing.

One of the cops who responded to the scene even admitted rather bluntly, “If he became physical with you and you two fought back, we’d have to arrest all of you.” She followed up by recusing herself, “but you gotta do what you gotta do.” As if being thrown into a rape-riddled men’s prison was a secondary comfort to death.