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Have you or people in your community been harassed, threatened, or attacked since the pandemic began, either in person or online? If so, what happened?

Most of my friends are trans women, who are almost constantly being told the worst things about their identity. They still receive almost no respect, are slowly having protections eroded away, and have to see more news stories about trans woman, particularly trans women of color, being killed for being trans. One of my friends came out to her mother, because they temporarily live together because of the pandemic. The mother than blabbed this to literally everyone and she is receiving bad treatment from family. Another just entered a partnership with a long term friend of hers, and now the ex-husband is acting hostile toward her. They had always been at odds politically, so this was kinda gonna happen eventually. I look like a white cis woman, so no one attacks me, despite the fact I am non-binary. So I just watch these people slowly go through dysphoria and panic nearly every day because of life right now, and all I can do is support them and protect them from harm.