She uses a derogatory slur for transgender people and even throws a bucket of water on them one night. While no one likes to deal with noise late at night, she handles it in a very problematic way. She explains how every night, she can hear them yelling outside her window. In arguably one of the most controversial episodes of 'Sex and the City,' Samantha gets into a turf war with sex workers who frequent her neighborhood in the Meatpacking District and are described as being transgender (this is never confirmed by the characters themselves, only alleged by the four main girls). As you can probably imagine, the episode is teeming with insensitivities that would never go over well today.
