WATCH: Trans Woman Attacked On NY Subway: ‘Suck My D*ck, Mutherf*cker’


A transgender New York resident, Pearl Love, was assaulted on the subway last week. She is a Taiwanese transgender woman who was headed to the LGBT Community House in New York City. She posted the video on Facebook Monday.

The recording starts with one passenger making nasty comments about her appearance. The passenger that started the fight started saying things like “Suck my d*ck!”

After taking some of this anger from the woman, Pearl started recording the encounter.

Pearl has dealt with so much harassment that she didn’t consider the account out of the ordinary at first. She usually just goes to another car on the subway, but this time, she decided to record the incident. The recording ends with the assailant jumping out of her seat and striking Pearl.

Pearl didn’t even realize it was serious until other passengers told her:

“I didn’t know that it was that serious until people told me, because I’ve gotten used to it. I thought, ‘Oh, it was just another woman.’ I didn’t know until people told me that it was not right, that it was assault because it’s happened for so long.”  

The assailant said that Pearl’s presence “ain’t appropriate for my child;” even though there was no child visible in the video. The woman also hurled ethnic slurs because Pearl is Taiwanese:

“Whoever that motherf*cker is in Taiwan or Tokyo, f*ck y’all’s emperor.”

The recording stops when the woman gets up to hit her, but there are other recordings showing the offender chasing Pearl around the subway car. Pearl has chosen not to make the others public after the response she received from the first video.

No one should be assaulted for being who she is. The fact that she considers this nastiness normal shows just how much hate transgender people receive. With all of the hate that Republicans are spreading right now, transgender people are in danger. They should not have to worry about being assaulted like this. They are just trying to live their lives as the gender they are comfortable with.


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