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Gathering data according to sex is self-evidently important: it can show that snow clearing schedules affect men and women differently; that women display different symptoms for heart attacks; that the size of smartphones is sexist. /1
see @CCriadoPerez& #39;s brilliant book Invisible Women for all this and more.
MRAs claim that women are as violent as men: the media bears a heavy duty to report domestic and sexual violence accurately, to ensure that we do not lose the sex-specific services we need. /2
MRAs claim that women are as violent as men: the media bears a heavy duty to report domestic and sexual violence accurately, to ensure that we do not lose the sex-specific services we need. /2
Yesterday, a Sydney court heard a bail hearing for a transwoman charged with torturing a 13 y.o. dog. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8702681/Sydney-transgender-woman-slit-dogs-throat-having-issues-sex-change-court-hears.html?fbclid=IwAR0Xe-GrEz3FFAxBw4kQk76-JWWDfUEF1rnsKFN75X-7OlnLCPYzEBik6NM">https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti... /3
The transwoman had had a & #39;domestic dispute& #39; with the dog& #39;s owner; was also charged with stalking, contravening an AVO, breaching bail and other offences. This is not female violence. This is male violence against women. MSM reported this as violence by a woman. /4
We can& #39;t get this language wrong. The stakes are too high. There is an epidemic of male violence against women - 44 women have been killed in Australia this year, 21 children; and the perpetrators are overwhelmingly male (see https://www.facebook.com/TheREDHEARTCampaign/)">https://www.facebook.com/TheREDHEA... /5
If we pretend that & #39;Olivia& #39; is a woman (and Evie Amati, and Maddison Hall), what does that mean for women& #39;s prisons? for violence prevention services? for women& #39;s mental health wards? Will & #39;Olivia& #39; go to the women& #39;s prison where most women are victims of male violence? /6
Olivia& #39;s lawyer says Olivia was having & #39;significant issues& #39; due to his & #39;sex change& #39; (murder of a dog is an & #39;issue& #39;). Amati& #39;s lawyer ran a similar argument: gender dysphoria made him assault people with an axe. I don& #39;t say there is a link between trans ID and violence; they do. /7
