A journalist and advocate who rose from homelessness and addiction to serve as a spokesperson for Philadelphia’s most vulnerable was shot and killed at his home early Monday, police said.

Josh Kruger, 39, was shot seven times at about 1:30 a.m. and collapsed in the street after seeking help, police said. He was pronounced dead at a hospital a short time later. Police believe the door to his Point Breeze home was unlocked or the shooter knew how to get in, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported. No arrests have been made and no weapons have been recovered, they said.

Authorities haven’t spoken publicly about the circumstances surrounding the killing.

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    Trans community lost some PR ground when it came out that schools were intentionally hiding gender transitions from parents.

    Probably because they want to avoid the children getting abused at home, or worse

    If you want to make progress on trans issues, I would suggest that the LGBT community take a transitional stance and then move again in the future, rather than losing their minds because they cannot force the whole population to share their views all at once.

    Hmm, I wonder what would happen in we’d apply this to past social issues…

    “If you want to make progress on civil rights issues, I would suggest that the african-american community take a transitional stance and then move again in the future, rather than losing their minds because they cannot force the whole population to share their views all at once.”

    “If you want to make progress on suffrage issues, I would suggest that women take a transitional stance and then move again in the future, rather than losing their minds because they cannot force the whole population to share their views all at once.”

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      Probably because they want to avoid the children getting abused at home, or worse

      Most abusers do not wait for some specific reason to start abusing. I would be interested to see data how many abused LGBT kids were never abused before they came out to their parents.

      Edited in all of the above.

      Hmm, I wonder what would happen in we’d apply this to past social issues…

      This might be splitting hairs a bit, but it basically is what happened.

      Edits in italics: For US women’s suffrage they gained the right to vote in a number of cities, territories, and states then eventually gained the right to vote nationally.

      Also when slaves were freed, they certainly did not become equal members of society the next day. It has however gotten significantly better over time.

      If you want to push in a certain direction, you take a few steps forward, show people that the world did not burn down, and then take a few more steps forward.

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        Most abusers do not wait for some specific reason to start abusing. I would be interested to see data how many abused LGBT kids were never abused before they came out to their parents.

        Are you claiming children haven’t been abused because their parents found out they were LGBTQ?

        This might be splitting hairs a bit, but it basically is what happened.

        Oh yeah, I remember when MLK said “While we wanted equal rights, me must acquiesce that we shouldn’t get all the rights white people have in order to appease those against us.”

        Big fan of moderates, MLK was. Or so I heard.

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          Are you claiming children haven’t been abused because their parents found out they were LGBTQ?

          Of course not, that would be nonsense.

          I was just avoiding attributing anything like reason to the abusers. The choices of abuse victims are not typically the cause of abuse. The pieces of shit willing to abuse children don’t need a particular reason to do it, and I am not interested in claiming something the victim did was the cause. Even if the abuse ramped up after coming out, it still sounds a bit like victim blaming any way I word it. Which in turn makes me wonder how many of them were already being abused.