I am not a lover of violence. Although I will watch television programs like Bones and CSI which often show the results of violence, I go out of my way to avoid it and have been vocal in trying to stop it.
But when I saw a youtube yesterday of a rude bigot getting his comeuppance at the hands of a transwoman in the New York subway I found myself agreeing with Monica Roberts of TransGriot.
How many times have I warned you cispeople not to frack with transpeople? It's not a good idea to get someone pissed off at you who not only has a little more strength than the average cis female, but is an estrogen based lifeform to boot. You also don't know how much bull feces that transperson may have gone through just trying to get through her day. Your attempt to make fun of them or disrespect them to prop up your own flagging self esteem may be the last straw that sets the transperson off and the next thing you know they're either reading you like a cheap novel, pulling out a can of whoop ass with your name on it or are doing both at the same time...
--Monica Roberts
I would like to share the video of the outcome, but it has been removed from Youtube for violating the policy on shocking and disgusting content.
Video replacement found over the jump.
Text attached to the video said:
Morning after xmas on the nyc subway train, me and my girlfriends was walking to the train, dude shouted out 'thats a man' to my home girl and this is what happens when u disrespect a [transgender person] in public.
The video was entitled
TOSSED LIKE A RAG DOLL FOR TRYING IT!!!
Andy Towle grabbed some screen captures for an article entitled Transwoman beats subway rider for calling her a man.
It is not lost on me that although this woman's behavior is thought by Youtube to be too "shocking and disgusting" to allow to be seen, it is not difficult to find Youtube videos of transwomen being murdered…and they have been allowed to stand for months.
A working version has been found: