The statement you’ve just made is literally a type of violent prejudice, though. Saying you support trans rights but not trans women is like someone saying they support women’s rights but not lesbians. The two are mutually exclusive.
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Speech can be violence, just as ideas can convey a violent ideology, and I defy you to find an actual trans woman who’d interpret “I support trans women but don’t think they’re female” as anything other than an offensive contradiction in terms.
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Also, trans women *do* suffer violence as a direct result of people acting on the type of arguments you’re making. Like the trans teen girl violently assaulted in her locker room this week at school, for instance. https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/04/06/community-fundraiser-trans-assault/ …
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When Trump calls asylum seekers 'animals,' 'rapists' and 'bad hombres' while the Charlottesville folks were 'very fine people', for instance, experienced political analysts, among others, recognise this as advocating violence against those groups. The same logic applies here.
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Similarly, when we talk about the relationship between misogynist language/beliefs and physical violence against women, we're right to see a link. When we talk about slurs against the LGBTQ community and how homophobic ideology is linked to hate crimes, we're right to see a link.
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The evidence is the testimony of trans women themselves. You don’t get to decide who they are on the basis of your comfort. There is no universal definition of womanhood from which to exclude them that doesn’t also exclude various cis women and nonbinary folks.
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It’s almost like transness and nonbinary identities are a consistent part of human sex, gender and sexuality throughout the whole of recorded history, whereas everything else you just listed as an example is not.
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