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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'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 /3
The transwoman had had a 'domestic dispute' with the dog'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'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/) /5
If we pretend that 'Olivia' is a woman (and Evie Amati, and Maddison Hall), what does that mean for women's prisons? for violence prevention services? for women's mental health wards? Will 'Olivia' go to the women's prison where most women are victims of male violence? /6
Olivia's lawyer says Olivia was having 'significant issues' due to his 'sex change' (murder of a dog is an 'issue'). Amati's lawyer ran a similar argument: gender dysphoria made him assault people with an axe. I don't say there is a link between trans ID and violence; they do. /7
Don't put these violent male people - who commit violence against women - with women. Don't misreport male violence. Don't misrecord it. Don't compromise women's safety.
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