The attacks claimed the lives of an Indiana woman and an Oregon man, both cisgender people.

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      You read an article about two people in separate incidents being killed over transphobic hatred and you don’t see a connection?

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        not at all, but if you’d like to think that then go right ahead. positive thinking is right up there next to prayer in usefulness!

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      I’m so confused by the “woman who was killed for being transexual even though she wasn’t transexual” and how that’s related to a really obviously homophobic killing

      This is fucking gash journalism

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        Your comment is lazy and lacks serious empathy. The lady was murdered with a razor blade to the throat because some fucking guy thought she was transgender. And the other guy was stabbed for standing up for his friend a transgender person.

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        Your comment is like saying “The guy paid $50,000 for an old IBM computer even though the computer wasn’t really an IBM - how is that related to people who like IBM computers?”

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        My dog doesn’t understand why the mailman keeps showing up every day.

        Doesn’t mean there’s not a reason the mailman shows up everyday, just that my dog isn’t smart enough to understand it.