https://nypost.com/2025/05/29/us-news/pure-evil-transgender-woman-who-viciously-stabbed-postal-worker-to-death-in-nyc-deli-sentenced-to-15-years/

This is literally genocidal rhetoric, this is the point we are it American discourse. A trans women gets called slurs and her assailant attempts to beat her to death in public over a minor misunderstanding. The media? They do a full hit piece and demand the maximum sentence. The normal sentencing for a murder in self defense? 5-8 years.

>After the sentencing, Hodges’ furious family members began chanting “It’s a boy!” and “F–king boy!”inside the courtroom as other supporters wore “Justice for Ray” t-shirts.

This was literally a member of a conservative and homophobic family enacting their idealogy of punishing anyone they consider a faggot suffering the consequences of their own actions by starting an unnecessary violent interaction. As they say: Fuck around and find out.

The judge and society? The maximum charge sentence allowable, misgendering and turning the perpetrator of the assault into a folk hero.

By the way, when a straight man had an almost identical situation: https://nypost.com/2024/03/30/us-news/bodega-clerk-jose-albas-self-defense-was-overkill-nyc-lawyers/ the Post idolized the idea of self defense and criticized the liberal lawyers for seeking manslaughter charges for a deli owner defending themselves from an armed robbery.

The difference (other than minor case details obviously) is that in this case a trans person was involved. Its the only thing that serves to differentiate this case from the sea is violent crime that exists in a city of 22 million people. We live in a time when being transgender is to be a targeted minority, complete with smart campaigns, caricature art depicting us as ugly, harsher penalties for the same crimes etc. Be aware, and be safe. If you are a victim in a situation like this, be mindful that the consequences of self defense will be crucifixion unequal to the crime.

This is NYC, so hopefully she goes to a women's prison.