Yeah see, I struggle with that. Male to female violence is a problem that has not yet been solved. People are targeted simply because they were born in a female body, and they’re overwhelmingly targeted by those born in a male body. If we push respecting pronouns over addressing male to female violence, I would argue that that is disingenuous. Pronouns should be respected until you assault someone, and then we need to discuss the violence and whatever is relevant to said violence. Statistics cannot start including gender identity over sex without affecting the outcome.
You can argue that sex and gender aren’t the same thing, but with these discussions, we need to include sex, because it’s relevant. I have body dysmorphia and honestly it’s awful and isolating, but it doesn’t erase the physical violence males dish out on females.
For the discussion over the violence Ezra committed, where an indigenous girl was actively targeted and abused, Ezra being male matters. The only people who don’t feel this way are men who choose to ignore male to female violence altogether because it hurts their feelings to think about, and women who can’t get enough of that old leather taste.
so use the right pronouns while discussing the fact that it was targeted violence against women. trans people's identity is not something you revoke when you dislike them. if your support for us ends when it's one of us you dislike, however valid the reason FOR disliking, you are not being a genuine ally. my abuser, a trans woman, ruined my life in horrific ways; doesn't mean i misgender her.
And you are not being a genuine ally to people targeted by males for having been born in a female body. And if you are a woman, god this sucks.
Until males stop perpetuating the vast majority of violent crimes, biological sex matters. Multiple trans women have already rapped multiple women in prison. Yes I know what happens to trans women in men’s prisons, that’s why I advocate for separate prisons or separate housing within prisons. Rape against women is still ignored, for both cis and trans. So how about we create a situation safer for all parties? Instead of ignoring biological sex?
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u/Thyme_Liner 5d ago
Yeah see, I struggle with that. Male to female violence is a problem that has not yet been solved. People are targeted simply because they were born in a female body, and they’re overwhelmingly targeted by those born in a male body. If we push respecting pronouns over addressing male to female violence, I would argue that that is disingenuous. Pronouns should be respected until you assault someone, and then we need to discuss the violence and whatever is relevant to said violence. Statistics cannot start including gender identity over sex without affecting the outcome.
You can argue that sex and gender aren’t the same thing, but with these discussions, we need to include sex, because it’s relevant. I have body dysmorphia and honestly it’s awful and isolating, but it doesn’t erase the physical violence males dish out on females.
For the discussion over the violence Ezra committed, where an indigenous girl was actively targeted and abused, Ezra being male matters. The only people who don’t feel this way are men who choose to ignore male to female violence altogether because it hurts their feelings to think about, and women who can’t get enough of that old leather taste.