"This unfortunate, and all too common, story about the lack of tolerance for members of Queensland's transgender community begins in the dark hours past midnight on the 9th of April 2009," Dr Cullen-Mandikos said. "On that evening Ms Brosnahan was awoken by the sound of her neighbour (Ronoff) wrenching the palings off her fence. Accompanied by a group of apparently intoxicated friends, Mr Ronoff screamed obscenities in Ms Brosnahan's direction and threatened to burn her house down."
The tribunal was told Ms Brosnahan remained hidden inside her home during the ordeal and felt "alone in the darkness, fearing for her safety". Ms Brosnahan, who was assisted at the hearing by the Australian Transgender Support Association of Queensland, gave evidence she was awoken in the dead of night by loud "aggressive yelling and screaming". "I looked out my bedroom window and saw three males and one female ... (and) I recognised my neighbour (Ronoff) to be one of these people," Ms Brosnahan told the hearing.
"I saw him (Ronoff) mouth the words 'You (anti-gay expletive deleted), you have your (genitals) in a jar'. I have then heard who I believe is my neighbour shout to one of his friends: 'Has anyone got a box of matches so we can burn the (anti-gay expletive deleted) place down?'." For his part, Ronoff failed to appear to defend the allegations of discrimination levelled at him by Ms Brosnahan during the hearing.
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Rude, is farting at the dinner table.
What he did was to be so intimidating with the vandalism done to their property and the shouting of death threats that the person involved feared for their life. That is a hate crime and should be prosecuted.
Take the transgender aspect out of it and picture the woman is instead your daughter or friend.
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