In my university town, a gay teenage boy was recently attacked in the street for his sexuality. A few weeks later, "trans women are men" was spray painted on several buildings around town. I'm of the opinion that making statements in such a way is trashy and reflects on us badly, but is nowhere near as serious as an actual physical assault. Despite this, the university has made no public comment on the attack, while the graffiti was officially condemned by senior figures in the university. When this was criticised by other students, we were told that it would be "innappropriate to detract from anti-trans hate crimes with other issues." The uni is also celebrating "trans fest" this week, so it would apparently be even more unfair to the gender specials. I'm fucking furious rn