The reported attack occurred after Rep. Paul Gosar helped boost a conspiracy that claimed the shooter responsible for the school massacre was trans. A 17-year-old transgender girl was reportedly attacked in El Paso on Tuesday night, after the far-right spread false rumors online blaming a transgender woman for the Texas school massacre that left 19 children and two teachers dead earlier this week. The girl, Tracey, told the Los Angeles Blade that she was approached by four men as she headed back to a halfway house where she lives after being kicked out by her parents for being trans. One of them grabbed her arm, she said, and told her, “Oh, look, it has a dick.” “Yeah, you know they’re perverting kids instead of killing them,” Tracey said the man added. “Yeah, you know it was one of your sisters who killed those kids. You’re a mental health freak!” one of the other men reportedly said. Tracey managed to get away. She said she tried to report the attack to El Paso Police, but they refused to take a report
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siehe auch: Texas Trans girl assaulted over GOP lies about Uvalde shooting Why was this teen girl assaulted by a grown man she’d never met, harassed by four strangers who could tell she was trans. “Oh look, it has a dick,” snarled one of four men last night outside an El Paso library where Tracey had just finished her high school homework before heading to the halfway house where she lives because her parents kicked her out for being transgender. In a phone interview today, Tracey told me the man grabbed her arm and forced her body around to make her look at him, saying “Yeah, you know they’re perverting kids instead of killing them.” She had no idea what he meant, but she was scared, like she says she usually is on the streets of El Paso these days. “I’m only 17!” she told the man who grabbed her. Another man said, “Yeah, you know it was one of your sisters who killed those kids. You’re a mental health freak!” She twisted away and rushed off on her bicycle, stopping to phone the El Paso Police, who refused to take an assault report. Hours later, during a phone session with a Rainbow Youth Project counselor, Tracey heard about false rumors flying around the Internet — that the horrific mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas had been committed by a “transsexual leftist illegal alien.” The rumor was amplified in a big way by Paul Gosar, a dentist and Arizona Republican Congressmember who styles himself a doctor on Twitter.