Members of the LGBT community and their allies are expressing outrage after a Bay Area transgender teenager was charged with battery after defending herself during a schoolyard fight two months ago. Jewlyes Gutierrez, a 16-year-old sophomore at Hercules Middle/High School, was charged January 8 with battery by the Contra Costa County District Attorney’s office after an investigation into the November incident. Three girls who allegedly attacked her, meanwhile, have not been charged. The decision by senior deputy district attorney Daniel […]
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