The following article arrived in my newsfeed a few minutes ago and deals with an assault on a post-op woman. The assault seems to have been caused by an earlier article in the Daily Mail. No surprise there.
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A TRANSSEXUAL believes she has been the victim of a hate crime after being attacked by a gang.
Miranda Lee, whose story about her sex change and battle for breast surgery has featured in the Echo and national press, was on her way home from a friend’s house in Southend, when she was pushed off her mobility scooter and punched in the stomach.
She said: “I was assaulted by five lads. They said ‘there’s that tranny freak from the papers’. They bashed up my mobility scooter and gave me a few quick digs.”
Miss Lee, 40, from Southend, said she uses the scooter to get about, after gender change surgery in 2009 left her with nerve damage around her groin, making it difficult to walk more than a few yards without being in agony.
The group ran off from the scene in Rochford Road when someone disturbed them.
She said: “I had to limp home, but I rely on the scooter so I’m stuck indoors now, as I can’t use it.”
Miss Lee, formerly Raymond Harwood, had a partial sex change at Charing Cross Hospital, London. However, she was then told there was no money available for a breast augmentation, needed to complete her transformation.
The original Daily Mail article is here.
