Men bullying women cont’d
Kimberly Nixon hopes it will send a message.
A transgender woman whose case against Canada’s oldest rape crisis centre was dismissed by the courts says she hopes the City of Vancouver’s decision to refuse the shelter funding will help change policies.
Kimberly Nixon, 61, filed a human rights complaint against Vancouver Rape Relief and Women’s Shelter in 1995 after she was refused training to work as a volunteer peer counsellor on the basis she did not share the life experience of someone born female.
And lost the case, and was ordered to pay costs to Vancouver Rape Relief ten years ago, and still has not paid a cent.
Hilla Kerner, spokeswoman for Rape Relief, said women who are born female and socialized to submit to male domination do not feel comfortable around women who may appear and sound like men and don’t share the same life experience.
And men who claim to be women should get that, and see the force of it, and sympathize, and not want to brush it off for the sake of their own Validation. It’s very male to brush it off for the sake of their own feefees.
Morgane Oger, who chairs the Trans Alliance Society, said she has been advocating since 2013 for Rape Relief’s municipal funding to be stopped.
And he’s proud of it.
Adrienne Smith, a human rights lawyer in Vancouver, said all of Smith’s clients are transgender and some of them have said they have been turned away from Rape Relief after a sexual assault.
“Rape Relief takes the position that transgender women are men in dresses and that there’s something inauthentic about them,” Smith said. “Their followers repeat this messaging and it’s fundamentally hurtful to my clients and to trans and non-binary people.”
Smith said Rape Relief has stuck to the same message even as society has changed.
Trans women are sexually assaulted at four times the rate of non-trans women, often by other women, Smith said.
Women often sexually assault trans women? Really? Any examples? Any at all?
British Columbia provides about $600,000 in annual funding to Rape Relief, which has a budget of about $1.1 million and opened its doors in 1973.
Nixon said provincial funding should also be reconsidered.
Nixon owes them money.
Yeah, sure. Citation, please.
Could it be women kicking them in the nuts after being groped? Let’s be honest, that is aSsault in maledom.
Often by other women — yeah, trans women I’ll bet.
I just don’t understand how this is controversial at all. How you were raised affects who you are. Socialization is a thing, and makes a difference. I legitimately don’t get how trans activists can even argue with that. It’s madness.
Well they don’t exactly argue with it, they just shout it down.
And I don’t mean that facetiously. Rage is deployed as if it were an argument, as if all the world were comments at Pharyngula.
Rage is deployed as if it were an argument, as if all the world were comments at Pharyngula.
Never was much in to labels, but after a few blow ups there, particularly with Giliel and Reprobate Spreadsheet (who names others on his blog but won’t allow comments) I am now and out and proud TERF!
Giliell could peak-trans anybody.
Men are by far the most likely to commit sexual assault, and heterosexual men are the largest subset of all men. Which bodies to heterosexual men want access to? The female body, and so I am highly doubtful that trans women are especially sexually victimised by the group that is the source of the majority of all sexual assault*. Which means the bulk of this surge in sexual assault has to come from women.
Blame women!
Shouldn’t this be classified as a subset of assault against males? I wonder how it compares to those statistics. I could imagine that such men are sexually abused by men and some women on the grounds that they are ‘sissies’ and similar, which I think would greatly resemble the motivation for similar acts against gay men.
Note that I readily agree that a man of any sexuality is more likely to commit non-sexual assault against a trans person, on account of them being perceived as creepy, freakish, closet paedophiles, and generally just being the Other.
I’ll wager the women often sexually assaulting trans women are in fact other trans women.
#10; I don’t know. If a transwoman is flashing his dick around in a womens’ toilet or locker room* and a woman decides to give him a swift knee to the balls, would the now watery-eyed transwoman consider that a sexual assault?
*I use that hypothetical situation because I don’t understand how else so many transwomen come to claim that they are assaulted in womens’ public spaces. In all of the years (20-plus) that I worked as a bouncer in various pubs and nightclubs, I had to deal with many situations where men had wandered into the womens’ toilets, either by mistake or not (and only ever had one mistaken identity, when a woman fetched me to kick a man out who was actually just a very masculine woman who I happened to know personally, and she wasn’t at all offended by the error), and also knew that many transwomen used the womens’ facilities without incident. So what are those transwomen who claim they are always at risk in such places doing to provoke violent reactions?
I would certainly like to see the evidence for the claim.