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This is all just absolutely wild to me because I went to an all-women’s college and we had no issues accepting trans women (there was a trans woman there when I was a student and it was honestly no big thing for anyone), and that was quite a while ago (I’m so old lol). But NOW it’s a damn issue? I feel like we’ve regressed so much and it’s painful.
Conservatives won on abortion and have found the next entry in the "then they came for" list.
The bigots got ballsy once they got unified, if we want things back the way they were we need to beat bigots back into the shadows of society and encourage behaviours that makes them run. No tolerance for intolerance.
It feels that way because we have, thanks to the "Christian" right directing the full force of their propaganda machine at demonizing trans people.
It became the de jure culture war issue. People who didn't care before, do now -- because now it's a team sport.
It’s an issue ONLY because it’s a useful angle for Tempe culture wars. Look how they have turned some gays against each other with this anti trans bullshit. It’s only an issue now because gays are too popular and so trans is a nice little niche group that can be persecuted without as much PR damage
Were they living in your house?
Not in my dorm, no. But she was living on campus in a dorm and no one seemed to give the smallest of fucks at the time. I wouldn’t have cared in the slightest had she been living in my dorm.
Oh and.
Anassa kata kalo kale,
Ia, ia, ia, Nike!
Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr, Bryn Mawr
TRANS WOMEN ARE WOMEN.
Women with traumatic pasts can be afraid if they want. Just look at what happens in prisons when a transsexual mtf goes into female population and ends up having a bunch of sex or even raping other inmates. It's not like it's completely out of the realm of possibility.
Can you cite an example of this ever happening?
First result on Google.
https://nypost.com/2022/04/25/transgender-rikers-inmate-gets-7-years-for-raping-female-prisoner/
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/26/trans-woman-isla-bryson-found-guilty-rape-not-be-held-in-womens-prison-sturgeon
Your second example is false. Your first points to a systemic problem with Riker's as evidenced here: https://www.bronxda.nyc.gov/downloads/pdf/pr/2021/39-2021%20rikers-island-violence-indictments.pdf
"Since Grand Juries re-convened in late February/March of 2021, the Rikers Island Prosecution Bureau has indicted 37 cases involving assaults on staff as well as assaults by detainees on detainees. The majority of the cases were brought to the bureau by Department of Correction’s Correction Intelligence Bureau as investigations. There are currently approximately 268 open investigations."
Looks like you found one example in amongst a whole bunch of other assaults which were not committed by trans people.
3 links. And if there's even one it can certainly make rape victims uncomfortable about sharing a living space with men, or "penis havers". Maybe they're in a sorority to stay away from dicks.
You asked for an example of it ever happening and I provided examples of it ever happening but you ignore them and claim one is false. Great goalpost moving there.
I missed the first one, that's problematic as an example, did you read what you linked to? The Guardian one is false.
The Riker's one does seem to support your assertion but it's mixed in with a whole bunch of other assaults because it's Riker's.
I literally do not care enough to read the articles, but you're saying that one of them proved my point. You asked for one. Apparently I gave you one and again you're shifting the goal posts.
The best you could come up with was one perpetrated at one of the most lawless and violent prisons in the country, one that is not fit for purpose but hey, you think you won an argument so you enjoy that.