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to do with him engaging in unlawful conduct and trespassing into my space”. The neighbor then went on to say that some women just give off a certain “energy” which is why they get sexually harassed more. To this I responded sarcastically with “of course, this is the same reason trans people are statistically more likely to be raped and abused, because they give off that same energy, right?” He then responded with “well maybe the reason trans people get raped more than others is because they are often into drugs and having sex all the time, so they put themselves in those situations”. After about ten minutes of us looping in this manner about how certain times of people “attract” sexual harassment into their lives Tess’ boyfriend (Ian Ockenden) who stays over at the unit frequently came out of the bedroom and interrupted us. He then proceeded to engage in conversation with this male and I came back inside. When Tess and Ian came back inside after speaking to this neighbor for a few minutes I said something like “sorry for being so sarcastic with him but I could not stand listening to his weird victim blaming/transphobic commentary”. Ian Ockenden said at this point “I don’t think that’s what he was doing” to which I responded with “well you weren’t there the whole time”. Ian then said abruptly “yes I was” and I responded with “no...you weren’t, you came out about 25 minutes after the initial conversation commenced”. I then looked at Tess and said “Tess for goodness sake” and Tess said quite passively “yeah they had gone round and round like that before you came out” and validated that this neighbor had indeed made victim blaming/transphobic comments. On the 31 August 2020 at about 10pm an Uber driver approached the side of the house where I was sitting on my phone between our unit at number three and number six. He asked me which unit was number three and at this time I didn’t realize that the number