A: My solution is the news media. These men that are killing and attacking trans women — put their pictures on the news. I think if they would constantly do this, it would curtail it a little bit. No man wants his picture to be planted on the news, because his friends will see it, his family will see it, and they don’t want that. Because at an alarming rate, these young people are being tortured, murdered, beat up and everything. I tried to instill with the trans girls to stay off of these websites trying to get a boyfriend or man. You’re just asking for your life to be taken away from you. My grandmother used to tell me: “Baby, you don’t pick up. You don’t go to a strange man’s house, because the ramification of that, you’ll end up dead or you’ll wish you were dead.
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