Beaten with rocks and bottles, a transgendered woman from Queens on Thursday spoke out about a chilling hate crime. At Queens County Court two men were charged with assault as a hate crime. Their alleged victim, scared and scarred, said she called police on her cell phone while she was being attacked. “I’m pretty traumatized by this,” Carmella Etienne said. Etienne, 22 moved to Queens from Haiti six years ago and soon after began her transformation from male to female. Now medically and legally a woman she thought taunting and teasing were in her past. But on Wednesday night she said she was verbally and physically assaulted on 116th Avenue.

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