YMMV / Law & Order: Special Victims Unit S10 E14 "Transitions"

• Jerkass Woobie: Hailey, a transgender girl suffering from an emotionally abusive father who doesn't accept her, a divorce between her parents, and ostracization at school. She has a history of being irrationally violent (including throwing a book at a teacher for accidentally using her deadname and shoving a girl's head in the toilet for calling her a "he-she") but it's easy to see where her anger is coming from. Near the end of the episode, she realizes what she did wrong and it hits her hard.
  Hailey: I've ruined everyone's lives. My parents', Blake's, Ms. Blaine's...
• Unintentionally Unsympathetic:
  • Hailey is meant to be seen as a struggling child fighting for the right to be herself, but she is confrontational, out of control, irrational, and violent against just about everyone in her life whether they mean her any harm or not (including her mother, who's come around to being supportive), and she's openly proud of it. After the godawful nightmare that Cheryl Avery went through in "Fallacy", hearing a twelve-year-old brat congratulate herself for giving her mother a black eye for catching her sneaking into the house at two in the morning just doesn't work.
  • Jackie Blaine is in a similar boat; she basically tried to kill Hailey's father in revenge for an assault she suffered years ago that had absolutely nothing to do with him, with the excuse that she was protecting Hailey from him — but while it's clear that Mark's hurting Hailey by refusing to accept her gender identity, it's still a long way from what Jackie went through.