• CableMonster@lemmy.ml
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    5 months ago

    Why is prison rape of trans people the thing we care about not prison rape of everyone?

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        5 months ago

        Thats fair. I have pointed out that if you include prison men get raped more, and people dont typically care.

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          5 months ago

          Yeah if you have 10000 of one group of people and 10 of another, the bigger group is going to have more stuff going on.

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      5 months ago

      We do. It’s just that trans women in prison are disproportionate rape targets.

      And we want equality, so either rape more men, or rape more trans men in women prisons it’s only trying to highlight that the transphobia is not about protecting anyone, but discriminating.

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      5 months ago

      The context being set by conservative media on a daily basis spewing the idea of a caricature transvestite posing a danger to women. In case you have missed that. It was well known that men pose a deadly danger to trans women long before the right decided to demagogue on this issue. See below for my quote of Rowling’s who actually cheers trans women being raped to death in male prisons. I hope you now see the relevance.