Progress: Transgender Marine murders straight Filipina prostitute
MANILA, PHILIPPINES — Residents of Manila and top Marine officials have described themselves as both horrified and inspired by last week's landmark murder of a straight Filipina prositute by a transgender U.S. Marine, sources confirmed today.
Cpl. Jenny Waller was arraigned yesterday in a Manila courtroom for murdering the female prostitute, who Waller allegedly assumed was male based on her female appearance and proximity to a Manila nightclub.
Waller, an 0351 Infantry Assault Marine assigned to the 4th Marine Regiment on Okinawa, was on a routine weekend mission to drink all the alcohol in Manila when the encounter occurred.
Asking the judge for permission to make a brief statement, Waller said: "Ten years ago I might have been killed just for being who I am, stabbed and left to bleed out in a men's bathroom off the Interstate. But thanks to the Marines, the LGBTQ community can finally say #WeGotThis."
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