Transphobic hate crime

Methinks a certain someone isn't getting enough attention on Twitter so thought they'd come and disrupt the adults talking

A group of men ,already armed , approach a lone" male" individual to ask for "a light" and then attack them for being trans is horrific and beyond the pale. However, I wonder if this might not have started out as a deliberate homophobic attack which then turned into a transphobic attack as in the end there certainly seems to have been an attempt to rape this person.
The scenario definitely smacks of a group of young men out to do some "gay" bashing.

It should be treated more seriously than other assaults because of the hate element.
But even then it is hopefully going to be logged and aggregated unless the perpetrators can be identified.

GC feminism isn’t anti-trans, no matter how often you try peddling that slur. It’s pro-women. You thing those violent bullies spend their evenings at Second Wave Book Groups discussing Sheila Jeffries?

It was a disgusting violent attack by transphobic thugs. Actual transphobia, rather than feminists who don’t believe in mantras.

Once they have a crime number, they should be signposted to victim support at least.

I was wondering if they could issue some photofits? It is extremely worrying that there are armed men out there.

The type of men who use knives on other people don't care about women's views whether they are Gender Critical or Trans Rights Activists.
It's very alarming that the police don't seem to have acted on this, especially as Ruan reports the attackers had knives and a gun. Have any UK media picked up on this and contacted Dorset Police for a comment on why they have not acted?

1st rule of misogyny: Women are responsible for what men do

It's a shame sex/gender has been hived off from the rest of the feminist board but I hope it's still ok to point out that feminists, including gender critical feminists, are opposed to male violence.
It would be quite strange to try and argue otherwise.

Maybe take a look at Nazi Germany to see what hateful rhetoric can lead to.

And knowing what a woman is and isn't is not hateful rhetoric or in any way comparable to the murder of millions of people. Give your head a bloody wobble man.

I don't know if "not interested" is the right term then. Unable to take further, maybe?

How fucking awful for the victim.

What role do you think the constant anti-trans rhetoric of "gender critical" feminists played in this attack?

Yeah, I'm sure thuggish men like this are hanging out on Mumsnet to get their fill of gender critical feminism before going out and committing violent acts

Maybe if more time and effort was spent acknowledging real transphobia and male violence instead of policing women for wrong think and putting up ribbons, we might fucking get somewhere.

Looking at the pictures I think this young person is very very lucky. The knife wounds to their face look like scratches which should hopefully heal quickly. I have seen far, far worse working with young people.

Godwin's law so early on in a thread? Gosh I'm shocked.

Telling women that they are responsible for men's literal violence
in the words of your username, "yeahbutnaw".

I can believe the police weren't particularly interested. If there were no witnesses and no CCTV then lines of investigation are basically zero, and so given the state of underfunding, they really aren't going to do any investigating here. Once the incident has been recorded, and perhaps the victim's statement is recorded, then that will be all that will happen.

Men attack a man and it’s all the fault of Feminists?
Horseshit

And please ignore the obviously goady post. Let's not have this thread derailed by somebody with an agenda.

Just to point out the bloody obvious for the lurkers:

This is transphobia.

This is a violent attack.

This is Literal Violence.

This is an assault to a trans person's safety.

Women disagreeing with you about women's rights is not literal violence. Women voicing points of view that you do not agree with is not a threat to trans people's safety. Women widely reject and find abhorrent actual, literal violence against trans people.

I don't believe the police didn't want to know.

Why not? We have discussed several horrific murders of women recently where the police have been incompetent, verging on disinterested.

Absolutely horrendous attack. More male violence.

This is an awful and shocking attack.

I’d be very surprised if the men who did this were motivated by gender critical feminism.