I'd take this to
r/Dallas but I feel like it'd be removed.
All three of my peers are looking to just straight-up abandon-ship with little more than a suitcase. Just whatever they can fit in a car and keep next to someone's couch out of state. Just anywhere but here. Anywhere at all, many places worse in quality of life and freedom, but at least it's not Texas.
...Me personally? I was at a Laundromat last month, where I was interrupted folding laundry by a fella who told me three things -- he's a trained boxer. Trans people are liars who deceive him on what genitalia they have. And, he's happy to beat them on-sight for "lying to him."
I either go back in the closet... or I become like my buddy, who lost a fkn eye, and is fleeing our home disabled w/ whatever will fit in a suitcase.
Texas is back to beating queer people on the street in huge cities, until they're permanently disabled. With bare hands. With some mfkers fists.
Please try to grapple with that like I have, the reality of pummeling-down, punching someone in their face until their meat is so bloodied, squishy, and bruised n' bleeding that their eye is ruined forever.
In public.
All because they don't like someone's clothes or pronouns.
Idk. I just wanted to tell somebody.
EDIT: For those asking for articles or proof: ...I'm talking abt my peer group here, and it's their reserved legal right to act or not act on events that transpire in their own lives. She chose against contacting the news to focus on gtfo, and wants to attract no further attention to herself. This is not an unusual response to such severe violent attack.
Again, I'm talking about recent news that a friend has lost their vision to violence and complications, and I'm staggered by it. I've been told that the reason the hospital didn't pick it up is the loss of vision has been from complications from surgery following the attack, not the event itself, which were handled all by different facilities.
As I've said in other comments, I would (probably?) choose to go to the news myself; but I have to emphasize that would be extremely dangerous of me and put my life in danger for the convenience of people to read, "Trans person is in danger in Texas. We already knew that." So, there is no article to link.
For those asking for photo evidence... fuck off.
For those who think i give a god damn about karma farming or making shit up at a time like this, fuck off, and then keep fucking off. It's disgusting and makes my stomach curdle.
EDIT2: I guess I hoped talking about the situ with other Texans would help process the shock out but it's clear I was wrong to post this in the first place. I was wrong.
I can straight up tell everybody the truth exactly as it happened and I'm still a liar, or bait, or whatever the fuck people feel like saying
Doesnt matter if it's telling the truth to their face or online or whatever. Nobody gives a fuck abt us regardless even when we're fkn mangled and disabled because it's easier to call me a LIAR because the TRUTH IS TOO SHOCKING
and if you still think I'm baiting or lying, get fucked. I'm so tired
