A young trans woman is attacked in Valencia shouting “fucking faggot” and “transvestite”
"fucking faggot" or "transvestite”. These are the insults that the young trans woman received Angela Manselgas last Saturday by three men who beat her in the city of Valencia. This is what the 21-year-old victim told this Monday to Valencian public radio and television. À Punt, who announced that he planned to file a complaint against the facts before the National Police.
As he has reported Ángela, the events occurred around 2.30 hours from early Saturday to Sunday, when he was at the doors of a leisure venue in the neighborhood of russafa and the attackers threw her to the ground, where they gave her a series of punches and kicks until she lost consciousness. When she recovered, the young woman went to the hospital, where she was treated in the emergency room, applying stitches.
“They are hunting us"
The events were reported on social networks: “On Saturday night my friends and I suffered a transphobic attack that ended with a punch to @MashaGrrrl”, and added that, apparently, “there was another one the same night and we believe they are the same. They are hunting us. Please be careful and share so that it is known and those bastards can be found.".
The second attack they refer to occurred that same morning, when a man rebuked a group of girls whom he asked about their trans identity in English. When one of them asked her to stop, she was punched in the face and she also had to be treated in the emergency room. According to what the victim told Valencian public television, the aggressor told them that they were a “disgusting trans" and that "They should not exist".
