Gabriela, left, and Nayra, who suffered a fractured ankle in an attack that has been called a hate crime by the police, in New York, March 28, 2017. The friends were attacked when entering a restaurant in Jackson Heights, a neighborhood known as welcoming to gays and lesbians. "I don't want to see anybody," Nayra said. "If I do, I freeze. If I go outside to smoke and I hear a man's voice, I panic." (Photo: David Gonzalez / The New York Times)

As trans people become the new scapegoat for everything under the sun, a wave of terror strikes the few places we've claimed for our own.