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davidn3600

(6,342 posts)
Wed May 4, 2016, 09:23 PM May 2016

Trans Woman Attacked on NYC Train

Cellphone video of a transgender woman being physically and verbally assaulted on New York City's No. 4 train was posted to Facebook on Monday.

The recording, taken on April 28 by transgender woman Pearl Love, opens with another passenger on the train taunting Pearl about her makeup, handbag and feminine presentation. "Suck my dick!" the passenger screams before declaring that Pearl's presence "ain't appropriate for my child." The recording ends with the assailant jumping out of her seat and striking Pearl, who then stops the recording.

Though she goes by Pearl Love on Facebook, Pearl, a Taiwanese transgender woman, told Mic she just goes by Pearl. Pearl confirmed the authenticity of the video and said she was on the way to New York City's LGBT Community Center when the female passenger began to berate her. After five minutes of verbal harassment, Pearl said she began to record.

Pearl said she experiences harassment in public so frequently that at first she didn't find the assault out of the ordinary. "It happens all the time basically," Pearl said. "I just walk away mostly, or I go to other room or other subway." This is the first time Pearl has recorded an incident of harassment.

But it wasn't until after Pearl posted the video on Facebook and received an outpouring of support that she realized how terrible the ordeal had been.

"I didn't know that it was that serious until people told me, because I've gotten used to it," Pearl said. "I thought, 'Oh, it was just another woman.' I didn't know until people told me that it was not right, that it was assault because it's happened for so long."

Besides attacking Pearl for her gender identity, the woman in the video hurled ethnic slurs at Pearl, who is Taiwanese.

"Whoever that motherfucker is in Taiwan or Tokyo, fuck y'alls emperor," the woman says.


https://www.yahoo.com/news/trans-woman-attacked-nyc-train-120300628.html


WARNING! FOUL LANGUAGE!


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Trans Woman Attacked on NYC Train (Original Post) davidn3600 May 2016 OP
Wow! That woman is some seriously uneducated street trash. nt Lucky Luciano May 2016 #1
Post removed Post removed May 2016 #2
So what do you mean by that? 2naSalit May 2016 #3
What is there to be twisted up about? dilby May 2016 #4
Post removed Post removed May 2016 #6
You sure don't eom LiberalElite May 2016 #8
Kudos to you. Kang Colby May 2016 #7
Well you seem to be in a tangle. dilby May 2016 #13
That is 2naSalit May 2016 #5
That's why I've turned into a recluse Warpy May 2016 #9
Ditto. 2naSalit May 2016 #11
I really want to retire to a small town awoke_in_2003 May 2016 #17
ok which one is transgender? Skittles May 2016 #10
... 2naSalit May 2016 #12
I was thinking that too moonbabygo May 2016 #19
Homophobia, Transphobia, and racism all wrapped into one short rant. Behind the Aegis May 2016 #14
Her appearance isn't appropriate for the child... awoke_in_2003 May 2016 #15
Whoa, that woman needs help. Sad that no one told her to STFU. Brickbat May 2016 #16
Foul mouthed racist bigots like her are not uncommon in NYC or anywhere else. Bluenorthwest May 2016 #18
I hope that woman is charged and prosecuted rollin74 May 2016 #20

Response to davidn3600 (Original post)

dilby

(2,273 posts)
4. What is there to be twisted up about?
Wed May 4, 2016, 09:42 PM
May 2016

A woman was assaulted on public transit by some low life bigot. Hopefully she presses charges.

Response to dilby (Reply #4)

dilby

(2,273 posts)
13. Well you seem to be in a tangle.
Thu May 5, 2016, 01:41 AM
May 2016

You want to be rewarded because a black woman is a bigot and you think it's confusing for "Liberals" or in other words you want to celebrate the one time it was not a white person since it somehow makes you feel right with your bigotry.

2naSalit

(86,042 posts)
5. That is
Wed May 4, 2016, 09:44 PM
May 2016

about 792 kinds of messed up in the head rubbish there.

My respect for my species diminishes exponentially by the day.

Warpy

(110,900 posts)
9. That's why I've turned into a recluse
Wed May 4, 2016, 09:52 PM
May 2016

Too many people out there feel entitled to lecture complete strangers on their shortcomings.

2naSalit

(86,042 posts)
11. Ditto.
Wed May 4, 2016, 11:28 PM
May 2016

It's why I live in a community of <1200 individuals and moving to one that's even more remote by year's end because this place is getting crowded all of a sudden.

 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
17. I really want to retire to a small town
Thu May 5, 2016, 10:39 AM
May 2016

with about 20 acres of my own, but with my wife's health it will probably never happen. The less contact I have with people, the less chance of being annoyed.

 

moonbabygo

(281 posts)
19. I was thinking that too
Thu May 5, 2016, 10:59 AM
May 2016

How could she act like that and yet be worried about her child. Makes no sense. As us Patriot fans say, the haters will hate

Behind the Aegis

(53,823 posts)
14. Homophobia, Transphobia, and racism all wrapped into one short rant.
Thu May 5, 2016, 01:59 AM
May 2016

I hope Pearl presses charges against this woman. This bigot feels empowered by what is happening in our country in regards to transgender people. I am not surprised no one intervened on Pearl's behalf, but I am a bit surprised no one else joined in the hate-fest.

This is just ONE example of what is happening out there.

"I didn't know that it was that serious until people told me, because I've gotten used to it," Pearl said.


That makes me so sad and so fucking angry at the same time!
 

awoke_in_2003

(34,582 posts)
15. Her appearance isn't appropriate for the child...
Thu May 5, 2016, 10:26 AM
May 2016

but saying "suck my dick" is? That's all kinds of fucked up.

 

Bluenorthwest

(45,319 posts)
18. Foul mouthed racist bigots like her are not uncommon in NYC or anywhere else.
Thu May 5, 2016, 10:45 AM
May 2016

NYers know better but they let that sort of hate monger rave on and on. No one speaks up for Pearl.

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