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A transgender girl accused of assaulting two students at a Texas high school alleges that she was being bullied and was merely fighting back

Shocking video shows a student identified by police as Travez Perry violently punching, kicking and stomping on a girl in the hallway of Tomball High School.

The female student was transported to the hospital along with a male student, whom Perry allegedly kicked in the face and knocked unconscious.

According to the police report, Perry - who goes by 'Millie' - told officers that the victim has been bullying her and had posted a photo of her on social media with a negative comment.

One Tomball High School parent whose daughter knows Perry said that the 18-year-old had been the target of a death threat.

'From what my daughter has said that the girl that was the bully had posted a picture of Millie saying people like this should die,' the mother, who asked not to be identified by name, told DailyMail.com.

When Perry appeared in court on assault charges, her attorney told a judge that the teen has been undergoing a difficult transition from male to female and that: 'There's more to this story than meets the eye.'

Perry is currently out on bond, according to authorities.

The video of the altercation sparked a widespread debate on social media as some claim Perry was justified in standing up to her alleged bullies and others condemn her use of violence.

The mother who spoke with DailyMail.com has been one of Millie's most ardent defenders on Facebook.

'I do not condone violence at all. But situations like this show that people now a days, not just kids, think they can post what they want. Or say what they want without thinking of who they are hurting,' she said.

'Nobody knows what Millie has gone through, and this could have just been a final straw for her. That is all speculation of course because I don't personally know her or her family, but as a parent and someone who is part of the LGBTQ community this girl needs help and support, not grown men online talking about her private parts and shaming and mocking her.'

One Facebook commenter summed up the views of many, writing: 'This was brutal, and severe! I was bullied for years and never attacked anyone!'

Multiple commenters rejected the gender transition defense and classified the attack as a male senselessly beating a female.

One woman wrote on Facebook: 'This person will get off because they're transitioning. This is an animal. She kicked, and stomped, and beat...not okay. Bullying is not acceptable, but kicking someone in the head. Punishment doesn't fit the crime.'


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Hungary has a history of being unwelcoming to gender study, banning it in late 2018, calling it an “ideology.” Trans people also reportedly had difficulties changing their documents from the same year onward.
Did you see that, everybody? It was subtle, so you have to be quick and pay close attention to catch it.

This short paragraph indicts modern journalism, not because of what it says, but because of what it doesn't. This journalist had a real opportunity here to actually inform and educate his readers that he completely missed. Hell, it could even have been an opportunity to try to reinforce the "trannies good, cis bad" programming. But he missed it.

There's something missing between the two sentences of the quoted paragraph: an answer to the very important question "why?" Why did Hungary ban "gender study" in 2018 and call it an "ideology"? This journalist could have elaborated on that decision, or on the criticism of "gender study" as nothing more than ideology. Why call it "ideology"? Is Hungary ignoring a mountain of (legitimate) evidence supporting gender study? Is Hungary just filled with caricatures of homophobic white men who all hate women and "the gays"? Has Hungary's leadership raised any legitimate arguments against gender study?

But no, none of that here. The author, out of either ignorance or cowardice, avoids even opening the subject for consideration. Instead, he quotes Human Rights Watch to give us our "teachable moment." Hungary is bad, transphobic*, evil, wrong, nasty and horrible for this, and must be punished in some unspecified way.

No comment from the Hungarian government is included, nor (apparently) was it even sought for this piece. Curious, that.

* I adore the fact that my web browser thinks "transphobic" is misspelled/isn't a word.
 
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Instead, he quotes Human Rights Watch to give us our "teachable moment."
This reminds me, some atheist organization publishes a yearly religious freedom report. In that report, they keep claiming civil marriage doesn't exist in Russia. When I wrote to them on Twatter that civil marriage is in fact the only legal form of marriage throughout Russia and even Islamist regions balls deep into preteen harems don't have religious marriage on the books, they replied with, "Not according to our research".
 
There is a new paper in Lancet Public Health that points to having official IDs that corresponds to a troon's claimed sex is associated with a lower risk of suicidal idealization and suicidal gestures. The press is already making ruckus over it and there will be more in the coming days.

The paper analyses a large set of pre-existing data, a 2015 survey by National Center for Transgender Equality, including 27715 respondents in the USA, of which about 22000 were deemed eligible for analysis. The statistical analysis looks fine, although the researchers are not transparent in their handling of confounders. And in the end, the results (barely) supports their thesis: having some IDs concordant with a troon's claimed sex is associated with a tiny reduction of suicidal ideation (relative risk 0.95) and actual self-harm (relative risk 0.96), while having all IDs concordant reduces the risk some more (RR of 0.78 for ideation, while actual self-harm sees a lesser decrease, 0.92). All these are statistically significant.

The questions we should be asking are:
  1. The survey was done by a partisan, activist group. How much can we trust it?
  2. Supposing we take the study at face value and, in the manner of irresponsible journos, assign a cause-effect arrow -- in other word, we aver that having "correct" IDs, instead of merely being associated with reduced risk of self-harm, actually prevents self-harm; the troons who complete the ritual of changing all their IDs will lower their risk of self harm by 8%. Further supposing there are 1.4M troons in the USA (0.6% of population) and that 41% of them will commit some form of self-harm. A rough calculation shows that giving troons the IDs they want will prevent 46000 cases of self-harm. Is it worthwhile? It's hard to say. Is there another way to achieve the same protective effect without making a mess of gender markers? Probably.
 
3. Cause and effect. Troons who have successfully changed all their gender markers are more likely to have their shit together.
This is covered in the paper itself and in the editorial of Lancet Public Health. I think what goes against the hypothesis that troons who managed to change all their IDs are saner, and therefore less suicidal is that the relative risk of actual self-harm does not decrease much (0.96 vs 0.92), suggesting that the prevalence of severe mental illness is similar between two groups. The decrease in suicidal ideation may be explained by the fact that troons who completed their legal transitions have fewer things to ruminate about, and the process gives them a sense of accomplishment and agency that may protect them against negative thoughts.
 
Tranmesty International says Indonesia 'must investigate' the case of a tranny who was accused of theft by a bunch of truck drivers and then set fire to. He later died in hospital.


The Indonesian authorities must urgently investigate the ‘horrifying’ murder of a trans woman called Mira, who was accused of stealing a truck driver’s phone and wallet before being burned alive in North Jakarta yesterday (6 April), Amnesty International has said.

Two alleged perpetrators are in custody, while three others remain on the run.

Usman Ham, Amnesty International Indonesia’s Executive Director, said:

“This despicable murder must be investigated urgently. It would not be the first time that LGBTI people in Indonesia have been violently targeted simply for who they are.

“Without prompt action from the authorities to cast light on this horrifying crime and bring perpetrators to justice, transgender people in Indonesia will feel even further neglected and vilified by their government.

“The authorities must also take this appalling murder as a wake-up call and repeal its laws that criminalise specific gender identities.”

Increasing crackdown on LGBTI people

The Indonesian LGBTI community have faced increasing violence and intimidation from authorities over the past few years.

On 10 January 2020, the Mayor of Depok, Mohammad Idris, asked authorities including the municipal police (Satpol PP) to sweep rented residencies (including rented houses, apartments, and dorms), in order to stop what he called ‘immoral’ acts. He labelled his campaign a ‘prevention toward the spread of LGBTI’ in his city.

Other cases of violence include:

  • On 27 January 2018, police raided beauty salons where several trans people worked. Individuals assumed to be trans women by the North Aceh Police Force were arbitrary arrested, humiliated and tortured. Although released without charge the next day, the individuals remain deeply traumatised, with some having lost their jobs and others being forced to flee due to concerns for their safety.
  • Ten women accused of same-sex relations after one of them posted a photo of her kissing and hugging another woman on Facebook were arrested in 2018 in Padang, West Sumatra.
  • A trans woman named Zoya (30) from Bekasi, West Java, was burned to death after being accused of stealing an amplifier from a local mosque in 2017.

> A trans woman named Zoya (30) from Bekasi, West Java, was burned to death after being accused of stealing an amplifier from a local mosque in 2017.

This turns out to be fucking lies.

Zoya was a man. With a pregnant wife and a kid. Who repaired TVs/amplifiers, and either stole or bought the stolen amplifier.


The video of him being burnt alive is on Youtube, and it's very clearly a man. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UpvXDXsduqc
He was not in any way whatsoever any kind of tranny.

This man was burnt alive for stealing a motorbike


More cases


They don't have AR-15s, so they make do with good old gasoline. Nothing to do with trannies. Tranny thieves might get burned alive. But so might any other kind of a thief, it's the thief part that's significant here.

Obviously when a teenage girl was burnt to death by savages in Bangladesh for reporting she had been raped, Amnesty International did nothing....
 


As a full time gaming critic, as well as a transgender woman, one aspect of video games I find really interesting is live streaming, where gamers play games online for an audience, who can watch along and interact by talking to the person playing the game.


Streaming has become a huge part of gaming in the past few years as it acts as a space for people to mix gaming with personality. Some truly wonderful stories have come out of the game streaming space. Last year, the worlds of gaming, streaming and the trans community overlapped, garnering worldwide attention far beyond those audiences usually interested in video games.


Over the past few years, one aspect of streaming which has become more and more prevalent over time is charity streams, where players set a lengthy or complicated video game task and vow to keep playing live until it’s completed as a way to encourage donations for a certain cause.


Summer Games Done Quick for example, where gamers annually try to complete games as quickly as possible, brought in over two million US dollars last year during a single event. Twitch, the place where most of these livestreams take place, estimates that $75 million was raised for charity with livestreams between 2012 and 2017, which should give you an idea of how big charity streams can become if they manage to take off.
However, today we’re here to talk about a particular video game charity stream, the 2019 HBomberguy Donkey Kong live stream, which made international headlines not just because of the money it raised, and the story behind the stream’s creation, but also for the unbelievable number of hugely famous people outside of the gaming community who came to lend their support to the stream, and the transgender community.

What made this particular live stream so special, and such an important moment of support for the transgender community, is that for a few days, it felt like the whole world was standing up for us. As a trans woman, someone who is often made to feel lesser or harassed within the gaming community, this stream felt like it was drowning out that hate for a few days. It showed that while one loud man with a megaphone can do their best to financially strip support from the transgender community, the world can come together and undo that monetary harm.


But, what actually happened? Well, let’s start off with a little background on the events that led to the live stream taking place. Back in early 2019, the UK’s Big Lottery fund, which distributes funds from the UK’s National Lottery to good causes, announced that a planned £500,000 grant for the charity Mermaids was being reconsidered and was at risk of being cancelled. The charity, which provides important resources and support such as counselling to transgender people under the age of eighteen and their families, was at the time facing attempts to have the funding decision revoked by those opposed to increased rights for the transgender community.
This is where Hbomberguy, or Harry Brewis, becomes a part of the story. Brewis is perhaps best known for his Hbomberguy YouTube channel, where he creates long form video essays about political issues, as well as critiques of pop culture, including video games.
Brewis decided to host a charity live stream to try and recoup some of the funds that Mermaids were at risk of losing. He picked a game, Donkey Kong 64, and decided to play it to a ludicrous degree of perfection, raising money for the charity and discussing topics around the rights of transgender people along the way.

Around this time, Brewis contacted CaseyExplosion, another streamer, who is, herself, transgender and sought her help setting up guests to join his planned 50+ hour long stream. The hope was that together they could get a few names in gaming to hop on, draw attention to the stream, and help raise more money for the charity.

“When Hbomberguy was doing the charity stream he reached out to me with the idea being he'd have some guests on to.... talk with him while he was gaming, so that when he was gaming it wouldn't just be dead air”.
When all the dust had settled, the stream had raised an amazing £265,000 for a charity which supports young transgender people, and nobody was more shocked about that than the charity themselves.
Helen, who worked as a volunteer during the live stream, said:

“We'd never heard of Harry Brewer, nobody had said to us that he was doing anything. I did the usual thing of saying 'thanks so much and you're ever so generous and that's great'. I didn't really think much more about it I just thought 'I'll check up and see how they're getting on in the morning this kind of weird random online thing. So I went to bed, got up the next morning and I think by then it was about £20,000. I was like oh my god this is amazing.


Obviously the money was amazing, but one of the things that was really obvious when you went on to the stream itself was the messages of support for trans kids and young people.

When you went and looked on the thread literally every couple of seconds there was popping up a 'support trans rights' 'support trans kids' and I saw this and thought this is what families and kids should be looking at, this is what they should be aware of.

Then sort of like Saturday afternoon ...Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez retweeted a tweet that we'd put out saying this is amazing isn't it great. She actually then quote tweeted it and suddenly we saw numbers that were in their hundreds in terms of people on the feed at any one time going up into literally thousands and thousands of people.

One of the first people I tweeted out was Cher, and she retweeted. It was so exciting. When you saw the message stream on Twitch, normally it's really slow, but it was like toilet roll rolling off. It was moving so quickly.

AOC came on, Chelsea Manning as well and Mara Wilson. I went on and spoke to Harry. It must've been about 2 or 3 in the morning. That whole weekend for me is totally surreal now, sitting back and looking at it.

When she [AOC] came on, everything went ballistic. You couldn't even read the messages they were just going so fast. The other thing with AOC/Chelsea Manning/Mara Wilson coming on is that all these young people were hearing this and seeing this as well so it was such a massively positive message after a really crappy couple of months.

At 77k Harry broke down and had a cry because he thought he was going to make £3/4 thousand. He kept on making himself little challenges like "if you make another 10 grand in the next hour then I'll go to the supermarket with ... written on my forehead".

One of the lovely things was that he had this team and they were there running the show while he was sleeping. Actually, one of the most poignant thing was the voices that came through at that time. While he wasn't playing, there was a lot of trans people on talking about their stories. I remember he got a young person and I'd spoken to them [on the helpline] and they said they thought they would've been dead if they hadn't have found someone to talk to who understood. I had a conversation with her as well online and that was really moving.

There was another person who had been desperately crowdfunding for months and months for a wheelchair. By the time they came off the Twitch stream, the wheelchair had been crowdfunded and more.

Essentially, for Mermaids as an organisation, I think we took on five members of staff based on having that much in the bank in terms of unrestricted funding so it gave us a boost. As a small charity, one of the things that is always difficult to have even if you go for grants and apply for projects etc, is actually getting core funding that covers your baseline functions and the salaries. Actually getting on with the general running costs of the charity is one of the hardest things to do and this gave us such an enormous boost and it also allowed us to put people into places that we knew we desperately needed but we just didn't have the funds to be able to do.

We got to the middle of February and then the Lottery confirmed that they were going to give us the grant because they'd looked into all the accusations made against us and found them to be baseless.”


While it’s undeniably amazing how much money this charity stream was able to raise, I think the bigger part of its legacy is undoubtedly the fact that it turned the simple two word phrase “Trans Rights” into a rallying cry, a call for people to share a simple message of support, in the face of a world where transphobic rhetoric and abuse are on the rise.


Seeing people like Alexandria Ocazio-Cortez, Mara Wilson, Adam Connover, Chuck Tingle, Grant Kirkhope, Niel Gaiman, Cher, Adam Savage, and more come together and announce their explicit support of the transgender community and our fight for rights felt like, for a brief moment, the tides were shifting.
It was a few days where, as a trans person in the video game industry, I felt excited, safe, and welcome. Sure, “trans rights” as a phrase lacks nuance. That phrase alone isn’t tangibly fighting for improved rights, but it’s a powerful start. It’s a phrase that says you’re safe with me, and honestly, as a trans person, just knowing which celebrities I can safely enjoy, without worrying that they secretly wished I didn’t exist, is a relief.
If nothing else, we can all smile knowing not that a simple jpg of a video game gorilla protagonist is now a powerful act of protest and a way to remind one man that his attempt to remove financial support from the trans community failed in a spectacular fashion, only serving to bring our supporters together.

This story tells us that in the attempt to defund Mermaids, those who sought to harm our community ultimately brought trans allies visibly together. No matter how much you may wish to remove the rights from one minority group, know that there’s probably a gamer round the corner, willing to raise that money that you’re trying to remove.

Gaming streams are the new telethons, if telethons allowed every person watching to shout their support from the rooftops while they watched along. They have a global reach, to bring causes across borders, and long may that continue.

 
Can't wait for Adolf Hitler to become a Jewish icon tbh. He streamed many of them into his summer camps scattered across Germany (decked with the nicest ovens) and gave them a nice place to stay after they lived in the ghetto for awhile. Surely such philanthropic behavior ought to be rewarded for such a noble deed.
 
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