Transsexual teenager from Gloucester attacked by other teenagers because he is transsexual, mother says

The mother of a transgender teenager claims her son was attacked by other teenagers in a Gloucester forest over the weekend because of his trans identity.

Jasmine Tkaczyk wrote in a Facebook post that her son, 16-year-old Jayden Tkaczyk, suffered a broken nose after being punched, kicked against a rock and stomped in the face during a party at the Goose Cove Reservation on Friday. The teens shouted anti-LGBTQ+ slurs at her son during the attack, she said.

“I am so ANGRY, hurt and disgusted,” she wrote. “…You did this to my son because he is trans.”