Chapter 1

History teaches us that male to female (MTF) cross-dressing (CD) has been with society for a long time just as the gays have been. You can find pictures on line of MTF CDs in 1800s London. And pictures of NYC police arresting CDs in the 1970s just for dressing in womens’ clothing. Although these days it is getting pretty involved what with LGBTCD2Q etc. factions all up in arms over one thing or another. Don’t even ask me what all that stands for either. I couldn’t tell you. Your humble author is ok with them, as long as they stay out of my face. Some people aren’t. Not by a long shot. And who knows why?

In a certain North American city gay/CD bashing seemed to be a popular “past-time” if you can call it that. Actually it was in a lot of cities around the world. Yes it was high sport for a bunch of young heterosexual lads brimming with energy to find a lone gay/cd gurl or a couple of them (usually under cover of darkness) and pound the daylights out of them. The victims were often left in sad shape sometimes even dead. Hardly a fair fight is it?

Four big strong lads against a lone cross-dressed gurl or gay guy looking for a contact. And some of the perpetrators were ex-military with training in subduing the enemy which would certainly help when trying to teach some poor cross-dressing guy a lesson. Some were associated with the “Hammerskins” a wonderful club of high spirited, dinky-donk, white supremacists bent on causing trouble for other people. Let’s just say they are endowed with massive physical power but little cognitive power. Surely this is a recipe for disaster.

It was not always a gang, though often it was. Sometimes it was one guy feigning interest in one or the other type of victim (gay or cross-dresser). Then when they left say, a club together and were out in the parking lot in the dark, the perp would turn on the victim, usually with catastrophic results. The victim, if they survived, usually ended up in Intensive Care in hospital with injuries like broken ribs, jaw, cheekbones, crushed testicles, broken arm, cuts and abrasions. You get the picture and it’s not a pretty one. And for what? A needless violent attack on somebody causing no trouble for anyone else.

Of course, the police became involved as this type of violence is generally frowned on in most societies but not all (see the People’s Democratic Republic of Iran-istan). The statistical information shows that violence against LGBT2QCD etc groups is pretty pervasive. A high percentage is abused in one way or another. It shouldn’t happen but it does.

In cases of domestic partner on partner violence the police can arrest the violent one but incidents as described above (police call them acts of random violence) don’t lend themselves to getting solved unless there is direct evidence like surveillance camera footage or maybe DNA evidence left at the scene. The police can usually use this to help find the perpetrator. Then it is up to the courts who work their usual magic and give the perp a draconian sentence like 4 months in the slammer or perhaps 3 weeks of community service. Lol on that one. Yah that is typical, certainly in North America and UK/Europe. Not good enough is it? Not at all.

One would think that catastrophic injuries resulting from a vicious beating would justify a ten or fifteen year prison sentence along with a public whipping or perhaps amputation of the offending appendage. Yes that seems appropriate. Hard time in other words. But No! Not on your life. Western society had grown soft and no longer had the stomach for handing out tough sentences even if justified. And on and on it went. Gays got pounded out, cross-dressers got pounded out. Sometimes killed. Young women were raped by gangs of a certain racial group. You know which one. On it went. It was a bloody mess, literally. And nobody would do anything about it.

Some people began to realize that the system was broken rather badly. Catastrophic injuries for the victim was rewarded with a slap on the wrist to the perpetrator. This had to change. Cross-dressers come from all walks of life. They are blue-collar workers, accountants, police officers, doctors, pilots and nurses too. Even ex-military guys. Who possess combat experience and training in hand to hand situations. So it happened that cross-dressers were being assaulted outside a certain club in the city in question. The CD gurls started carrying Karambit knives – an effective weapon if you knew how to use it. Maybe it was useful as a threat. Or maybe if a perp got stung by one, say a slash to his body, it would just make him more angry which he would take out on the gurl. Not good.

Another one was attacked by a group of four punks but other patrons scared them off. Lucky. Four against one in high heels. Hardly fair. But plans were being made to counter the threat. The punks were at least consistent. They kept hitting the same places although in a somewhat random fashion. This one club was on the edge of the city with a large dark at night parking lot. Some people had had enough. Something had to be done. Our two intrepid cross-dresser hating lads were lying in wait one night. Out in a dark corner of the parking lot they were. The lone cross-dressing gurl walked to her car but was a little tipsy from two too many glasses of Chardonnay. She got way-laid by the two punks who got a few punches in. She fell to the ground and got a couple of kicks from them before four big guys from a nearby van interceded.