SheWired.com – by Jacob Anderson-Minshall
Last weekend, as people filled streets across America to protest the passage of numerous anti-gay marriage measures, one could easily conclude that the ban on same-sex marriages is currently the single greatest affront to LGBT civil liberties.
And yet, many individuals are still being violently attacked and sometimes killed simply for being queer or transgender. Last month, in little over one week, three Washington State University students were assaulted on campus; two were FTM-spectrum trans individuals affiliated with the school’s LGBT association, while the other was an openly gay student so brutally assaulted by three assailants that he was taken to the hospital with a collapsed lung.