Quote (Handcuffs @ Apr 25 2011 09:07pm)
Also, to clear up a bunch of transphobia going on in this thread, the person is a male to female (MtF) transgendered individual, and so the proper pronouns to be used are "She/Her/Hers".
She is not a man, and she is not an 'it'.
I'll tell you straight up, I'm not calling the transexual a she. A McDonalds worker wants to be an astronaut, doesn't mean that the McDonalds worker is all of a sudden an astronaut. I don't believe we can change our genders. Based on my beliefs, I'm calling the transexual a man, based on my beliefs. You don't like it, you don't have to, but that's not changing.
But to the video itself... WAS this a racist crime? I don't know, I wasn't there before. Was it because it was a man in the bathroom? It's possible, but as I said, I don't know. I do believe there are Black on White Hate crimes. I also believe there are White on Black hate crimes. It's true that more often than not, Black on White hate crimes aren't called hate crimes, but is that what this is? I don't know. Anyhow, it's definitely something to be investigated, that's for sure.