“Karen” used her penis in the sexual assaults. If the Govt goes ahead with its plans to allow gender self-declaration, “Karen” will legally be a woman. Are we all just fine with that?https://twitter.com/SkyNewsBreak/status/1050372466659524609 …
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And if sexual assault didn't happen in prisons between cis people, I'd see your point. But it does. The failure to stop it there is the same issue that it is here; moreso in a prison environment where there's ostensibly more protection from guards.
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Cis people? You mean “people”. Yes, some people sexually assault other people. It doesn’t mean we need to make it easier for them to to do it. “Karen” is a man and shouldn’t ever have been in a woman’s prison.
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No, I mean "cis people". The word's been around since 1995 it's not like this is new. And Karen's horrible actions aside, it's not good to use them as a scapegoat to harm law-abiding, credit-to-the-community trans people.
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No, we are all just people, not cis people or otherwise. No one is using anything. Simply pointing out the logical and highly predictable conclusion of the absurd GRA proposals, which allows sex offenders to abuse trans rights to gain opportunities to offend.
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Well, I'm cis in the same way that I'm atheist. Or in the way that other people call themselves religious. It's all just a label, as good or as bad as any label can be. And this person had offended anyway, repeatedly, without abusing trans rights. That's not the fault of GRA.
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You can call yourself anything you want. You don’t have the right to demand other people use your silly words.
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And if someone called Steven prefers to be called "Steve", you usually do it because it's polite and it doesn't infringe on your life in any meaningful way. Unless you have an agenda to specifically harass or annoy them, of course.
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Asking people to call you by your chosen name is very different from asking (even requiring) people to accept a completely new definition of a word, rendering a word meaningless. Oh, and don’t try to imply this is transphobia. That just makes you look silly and pathetic.
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You understand that cis women *also* assault other women in prison, right? The problem isn't the genitalia involved, the problem is guards failing to prevent assaults.
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This sudden widespread anxiety about lesbians assaulting women in prison is disingenuous and desperate
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Agreed - when it's a trans lesbian assaulting women in prison, suddenly the Julia's all concerned.
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'Disingenuous' springs to mind again. Calling male-bodied people 'lesbians' is lesbian erasure and it disguises male pattern violence
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Only "disingenuous" if you don't believe that trans women are women (which they are). A woman who is sexually attracted to other women is a lesbian. Yes, even a trans woman.
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Perhaps, but transwomen are transwomen. Nothing wrong with being a transwoman so why try and assert something else
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There's no intention to allow people *just* to reassign on a whim, it still has to be certificated and is enduring, not momentary. It would help if you read the consultation documents before opining.
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I would suggest that it wasn’t the prison officers who accepted his/her self identification but their management.
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