When she first considered transitioning from a man to a woman, Sophia Conquest made a checklist of “bad and good things.”
On the bad side: As a transgender woman, she’d essentially have a target on her back. “I knew it was going to happen,” Conquest says.
The day before WW interviewed her last month in Pioneer Courthouse Square, Conquest says, a child threw rocks at her. Earlier that week, she adds, a woman physically assaulted her in a confrontation that began with the woman insulting Conquest with slurs, like “She Man.” Conquest eventually fended her off with her purse while running away.