as a serious point, sexual and family violence and harassment is strongly gendered
it's mostly male on female violence. this is the reason why you see lots of women's refuges for family violence, but very few for men.
So are you positing that when a man identifies as a woman, i.e. a male to female transgender, that choice changes their risk of committing gendered violence?
it's an interesting debate as it cuts to the heart of the difference between identity and reality. Presumably other gendered risks don't change with identity, like the higher risk women have of getting multiple sclerosis. Even though there have been some high publicity rapes in womens prison committed by male to female transgender, I'd doubt whether there enough data to answer this definitively. And as barst said, it's interesting that you're willing to dismiss the right of women to identify as different from trans people, while supporting the rights of transpeople to identify as different from their birth sex
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