In a diverse part of town, near a diverse private university neighborhood, I was crossing a street and a couple of college-age looking guys yelled, “You faggot.”
I am a woman who is transgender and I felt really offended. First, I am a woman and the gender respective insult would have been “Dyke.”
Another time I was riding the subway. It was crowded and a guy was groping me from behind. Even though we bumped into each other beyond the moving of the train, he was doing more than what gravity and the movement of the train would naturally do.
In both these incidents I wasn’t wearing anything that would typically be provocative or revealing. I was dressed in pants and a plain top.
– Elizabeth G.
Location: Washington, D.C.
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