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Rally Planned After Transgender Woman Brutally Beaten Outside Home

By Katie Honan | December 1, 2015 12:12pm

ELMHURST — Advocates are planning to host a rally Tuesday night in support of the transgender woman clinging to life after being brutally beaten outside her Jackson Heights home early Sunday.

The rally, hosted by Everything Transgender in NYC, aims to share a message of support and respect within the community.

"Our message to the community where this happened will be ‘Transgender Lives Matter,’ ‘Respect Your Transgender Neighbors’ and ‘We are NOT 'men dressed in women's clothing,'" the group wrote in a press release.

The rally will begin at 5:30 p.m. at the 90th Street-Elmhurst stop on the 7 train and will continue to 93rd Street off Roosevelt Avenue, where the 35-year-old victim was attacked by a man shortly before 4 a.m. Sunday, police said.

Police and neighbors said she had gotten into an argument with the suspect before the attack, but it's not clear what the fight was about. 

The victim's landlord heard fighting and looked outside where he saw the suspect attacking his tenant, slamming her head multiple times into the sidewalk, law enforcement sources said. 

The suspect then fled north on 93rd Street, officials said.

The victim is currently on a respirator at Elmhurst Hospital with brain injuries, sources said.

The NYPD's Hate Crimes Task Force is looking into the attack, but it's still under investigation.

"We are asking transgender individuals, LGB people and, all of our supporters to come out tonight," organizers wrote.

"This demonstration serves as a testament to the support we have for one another in our community."