Transgender Massachusetts Teen Beaten in Possible Hate Crime

Jayden Tkaczyk / NBC video screenshot

“One second, I was having fun, the next second, I was on the ground getting my face stomped and beat up,” Jayden Tkaczyk, 16, said. His mother said the attack was her worst fear and described the attack as a hate crime.

Trigger warning. Vivid descriptions of violence.

The Gloucester Police Department said in a press release that the "parties involved in this incident are known to one another."

A detective trained in civil rights investigations had been assigned to lead the case, police said, and a spokesperson for the department confirmed to ABC News the incident is "being investigated as a possible hate crime."

"The investigation remains ongoing and no determination has been made at this stage," the police spokesperson said.

The teen has previously faced bullying for being trans, Rourke said.

Jayden, who attends a local vocational high school, joined the Gloucester High School football team last year but quit after only a few practices because the "bullying got so severe," according to Rourke.

Trump tells moms for liberty that schools are performing sex change operations on children

Screenshot / Erin in the morning

Trump in an address with Moms for Liberty lied implying that children under the Biden administration were undergoing sex change operations at schools without their parent's knowledge.

The nativist former president is aware he is losing badly in the polls and has resorted once again to telling outright lies hoping to enrage his base.

It is truly disgusting that Trump said this it is equally appalling that he told this lie at a meeting of the Moms of Liberty a group designated by the SPLC as right wing extremist anti-goverment for its words and deeds.

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