Transgender woman attacked for 2nd time this year in S.F.

[KamaAina]

http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Transgender-woman-attacked-for-second-time-this-6636891.php

Samantha Hulsey had just caught a movie in the Mission and eaten dinner with her fiancee when for the second time this year, the dangers of being openly transgender — even in San Francisco — were brought home to her in violent, random fashion.

Hulsey was attacked Sunday night by a couple who threw hot coffee on her and repeatedly punched her in the face, police said. Officers arrested a man and a woman on suspicion of a string of hate-crime-related counts.

It was the second time since January that Hulsey, 25, had been assaulted by a stranger, for no apparent reason other than that she is a transgender woman.

“I was very frightened,” Hulsey said Monday, her face swollen, eye blackened and lip cut. She held hands with her fiancee, Daira Hopwood, 40, as she described what happened around 7 p.m. Sunday on Eighth Street near Mission Street.

[randys1]

1. GOP, cons, teaparty, your attitudes about bathrooms and Gay folks in general,

is why this shit happens.

If we made it SO unacceptable, assholes like this couple would find it harder to do.

We need you, GOP, teaparty, to STOP the rhetoric, please.

Seriously, what if your brother or sister, friend, etc, was Gay or Transgender or whatever.

PLEASE speak OUT against this stuff!

I know you are reading this.