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Transgender student attacked and robbed in Houston

”I was scared, I really was scared. He had the blade up there and he kind of made little strokes like he was going to cut me. And I’m just like, well, let me tuck my chin in so that way I don’t bleed to death.”

Lance Reyna, a transgender man, who says he was called a “queer,” punched, kicked and threatened with a razor before while robbed in a bathroom at his Houston TX community college (MyFoxHouston)

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