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Illinois prosecutors weigh hate crime charges after lesbian attacked at McDonald's (www.cbsnews.com)

submitted 5 days ago by Sunshine@lemmy.ca to c/lgbtq_plus@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 44 points 5 days ago (1 children)

This 100% fits the definition of a hate crime. Someone's appearance does not tell you anything about their genitals, which is why this bathroom nonsense could never play out in reality. Her appearance may be more "masculine," but she is female and identifies as a woman. I have a strong suspicion that the reaction of these degenerates would have been the same or worse had she used the men's restroom. They desired to hurt lgbtq+ people, and no bathroom decision would have changed their actions other than to make it worse.

[–] CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 days ago (1 children)

They knew she was a girl, they attacked her not because of accusing her of being trans, but just because she is lesbian

[–] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 8 points 4 days ago

That is what I was implying, without being explicit on the outcomes had she been in a men's restroom.

[–] TTH4P@lemm.ee 49 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Holy shit, let people pee. What in the world is wrong with us?

[–] lath@lemmy.world 11 points 4 days ago

Some people think they can give a beating without receiving one in return.

[–] RedSnt 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

They could've linked the crowdfund campaign to cover her medical costs, although looks like it has been covered and then some.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 15 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

the crowdfund campaign to cover her medical costs

Has to be one of the most depressingly dystopic (true) sentences I've read.

Like yeah, it's called "taxes"

[–] RedSnt 5 points 4 days ago

I know, it always depresses me when I see that. Even though my country could be better on a lot of things, at least I don't have to worry about medical debt.

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

The link is 403 erroring for me and seems to be because of CloudFront? Odd.

[–] RedSnt 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Huh, I connected just fine (and still do) from Denmark. But there was a cloudflare link I clicked on yesterday that refused my IP which was odd. Maybe they're testing out some aggressive anti-AI crawler stuff and sometimes get it wrong?

[–] AlecSadler@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

Hm. It worked on my phone OK, I'm at work so I wonder if my work IP is being flagged for some reason 😬