Biography
Kosilek suffered a troubled childhood where the adults responsible for her care regularly committed acts of physical, emotional, and sexual abuse against her. The abuse continued into her adult life. Much of the abuse is attributable to transphobia, to the fear and hostility that the people around Kosilek expressed towards her, a transgender person. None of the people who abused Kosilek were ever prosecuted.
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