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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a woman I don’t like it when, for example, any AMAB violence against AFABs is represented as “female against female” violence, regardless of the gender identity of the perpetrator. For example, there have been some pretty egregious crimes committed by trans women in female prisons against AFAB prisoners. These are especially egregious because IMO those particular perpetrators should not have been in a women’s prison to begin with.

However, trans women AMABs committing violence on AFABs are a pretty small number of people and a small percentage of AMABs committing violence on AFABs overall. So it would be hard for the presentation to not seem like the trans women AMABs were cherry-picked to make a point unless the presentation had thousands of examples, which would be an absurdly long presentation. So it would be hard for such a presentation not to appear transphobic, or at least having to be bent and twisted to try to make a point that would be better made another way.

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Thank you for putting your finger on what made me uncomfortable about this idea.

To OP: I think if you want to approach gendered violence in a way that both respects gender identity but also does not exclude crimes committed by or against trans people, it would make more sense to group the presentation more granularly — cisman to ciswoman violence, cisman to cisman, cis woman to ciswoman, cisman to trans man, trans man to nb, etc. and discussing how common that violence was in comparison to the groups’ representation in the greater population and also highlighting studies about underreporting — for example I would assume men (trans and cis) are probably less likely to report violence they experience for example due to both culture notions of masculinity and the unlikelihood they’ll be believed by law enforcement but I don’t actually have any data to back that up and think it would be helpful to this kind of conversation.[/quote]

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