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Transgender woman in Memphis claims her business’s truck was set on fire

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local FOX affiliate WHBQ in an interview. “I thought it was a game, but no one would kid like that. It actually was on fire.

I could see flames. The fire department came, got the water hose and put it out. They said it was arson.”The truck serves as a vehicle for her lawn care business, Lawn Chicks, which hires transgender women who can’t find work elsewhere because they have been discriminated against by employers.

The business has been operational for about five years.Whitfield says she believes she was targeted because of her gender identity and her practice of hiring trans women as employees.“I ain’t did nothing to nobody,” Whitfield said. “I’m trying to run a business and make a profit and this right here just burns it all to pieces.

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