Transgender Activist Becomes Victim of NYC Subway Attack

A noted New York City transgender activist, who once asked the notorious "Harlem Hate Church" to stone her, was the victim of a brutal attack on the subway that is now being investigated by the NYPD as a hate crime.

According to a report on local 24 hour news channel New York 1, Jennifer Louise Lopez's late night ride on an uptown D train turned violent last month when the woman she sat down next to attacked her after realizing that she was a transgender woman.

"She spun around and said 'Oh, you're a man,' as soon as she said that she took a swing at me," Lopez told NY1. "She barreled right through the people and came at me and started punching me, hitting me."

Lopez told NY1 that while fellow passengers on the train protected her from the attacker, many of them also verbally abused her during the incident.

While the attacker was being restrained on the train, she threatened to follow Lopez.

"I hope he gets off at 125th Street, I hope he gets off at 125th Street," she allegedly said.

But that was Lopez's stop. And, when she got off she says the woman followed and attacked her again.

"She punched me right in my left eye," Lopez said. "Due to the punches there were at least two holes that were placed in my retina."

Lopez is the founder of transgender activist group Everything Transgender in New York City.

In 2014, the sign in front of the notorious "Harlem Hate Church" ATLAH World Ministries that read "Jesus Would Stone Homos," prompted Lopez (who identifies as lesbian) to knock on the church's front door to request her stoning.

"I hope that by going up to the door and presenting myself as the human and the product of [Goddess'] creation, churches can begin to understand that us lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people are the very same creations that they are," Lopez told The Huffington Post. "My [Goddess] is one of peace, love and inclusion for everyone. As a United Methodist Christian I would love to see that one day soon all of our churches, including any religion, are able to finally stop the discrimination toward LGBT people."