here’s a thing that happened to one of my friends. i was there. basically, we were walking down the sidewalk, talking about something meaningless. i think it had to do with a movie. then this bus screeches up, stops next to us, and a bunch of people with 'down with cis' shirts climbed out and started beating him up. i was punched and kicked a bit too, but i managed to avoid brutalization by going for their faces. after figuring out what’s happening, i started attacking them back, getting them off of him. he was quite injured but i called 911 and he made a full recovery at the hospital. i was fine, with only a cut on my arm that they patched up.