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Females need sex based rights: A thread 
Forcing females that have endured trauma to be treated by or housed with males is cruel and detrimental to their well being. Doing so will inflict further psychological and emotional damage.
Forcing females that have endured trauma to be treated by or housed with males is cruel and detrimental to their well being. Doing so will inflict further psychological and emotional damage.
Denying a woman in need of housing because she doesn’t feel safe around males is punishing her for asserting her bodily autonomy and advocating for her own safety.
Every human being deserves control over their body and safety.
Every human being deserves control over their body and safety.
Women must have sex based language, rights, security and advocacy due to the nature of our oppression.
Women are the largest and oldest marginalized class due to our biology. Removing women's rights for the enhancement of their oppressor’s is an appalling precedent to set.
Women are the largest and oldest marginalized class due to our biology. Removing women's rights for the enhancement of their oppressor’s is an appalling precedent to set.
TW: child abuse & pedophillia
Trauma: I am a sex trafficking survivor. I was sold as a commodity, for as far as my memory stretches, I was a product to be used by men. My father’s cousin, Tio as I was instructed to call him, made child pornography.
Trauma: I am a sex trafficking survivor. I was sold as a commodity, for as far as my memory stretches, I was a product to be used by men. My father’s cousin, Tio as I was instructed to call him, made child pornography.
While he preferred boys sexually, I was his favorite star. His customers liked how I cried. Dacryphillia. I was taught what to do with popsicles and then I would be pinched, slapped or scared so I would start to cry and even at times scream. I was taught to fear everything.
My father prostituted me out of the back of the local liquor store. If they were wealthier I would go to their home. He’d let the liquor store owner have time with me for a case of beer. Somehow that stings the most.
At 12 I was too old for Tio’s movies and most of my rapists - who were his customers.
My father sold me to his best friend, Rich. Rich was a sadomasochist and introduced me to the world of BDSM. I was with him, and his sadist teenage son, for 4 years.
My father sold me to his best friend, Rich. Rich was a sadomasochist and introduced me to the world of BDSM. I was with him, and his sadist teenage son, for 4 years.
I was sold and resold like this until I was a few months past 30.
Surviving: I had been taught to fear everything, my worst fears were electricity and men. The first LEO I interacted with was male and while I knew he meant freedom, he also meant pain, suffering, smothering…
Surviving: I had been taught to fear everything, my worst fears were electricity and men. The first LEO I interacted with was male and while I knew he meant freedom, he also meant pain, suffering, smothering…
Luckily for me a female LEO arrived soon and somehow she just knew what I needed. I spent the next three weeks in a hospital. The only men I saw were glances in the hallway. All LEOs that came to speak with me were female.
Two nurses accompanied me everywhere I needed to go to ensure I’d feel safe. Having wires attached to me was too much for me to bear, my nurses took vitals manually. It was a kindness and respect that was foreign to me and while I feared it, I needed it.
Had I been subject to acute stressors during this crucial time of healing and adaptation I would not be alive today. And I would not be thriving.
Thriving: Therapy, medication, time, understanding, and kindness. It doesn’t heal all wounds but those wounds become bearable.
Thriving: Therapy, medication, time, understanding, and kindness. It doesn’t heal all wounds but those wounds become bearable.
You go to school, start a career, you begin a new life that you are disassociated with until the wounds are further in your past and slowly you recognize the person in the mirror as you.
The treatment we receive post trauma builds the foundation for if we thrive or just survive.
The treatment we receive post trauma builds the foundation for if we thrive or just survive.
It is very hard to share my past outside of a training scenario because I understand the emotions it can evoke. I also never want a victim to compare their story to mine. The worst abuse and trauma is the abuse and trauma you are enduring or have endured.
Trauma doesn't discriminate. Hurt once or a hundred times, acute stress will still turn into PTSD. One wound or a thousand, they require healing just the same.
Trauma will consume you or build you.
Today I love and laugh and I am alive.
And I fight. For you, for her, for us.
Trauma will consume you or build you.
Today I love and laugh and I am alive.
And I fight. For you, for her, for us.
