'He saw me, visibly could tell I was trans, I was queer, and he started throwing homophobic and transphobic slurs,' Atlas Marshall said.
Three people, including a transgender woman, were attacked in Portland, Oregon, in what police say may be a bias crime.
She said that insults turned into a physical attack and that she was held down by two men and beaten."It's been very emotional," the friend, Austin Schuchard, told the station."I've never really experienced, first on hate like this before." In Oregon, bias crimes are defined as any criminal act in which a person is targeted because of race, color, religion, sexual orientation, disability, gender identity or national origin, Portland police said.
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