A wildfire of concern
Disturbing footage posted to social media shows a fight breaking out at a Brazilian school allegedly after a girl confronted a trans-identified male in the women’s bathroom.
Or changing room (or both), I think, because the girl is barefoot.
A newly-posted recording uploaded to Twitter from inside a Brazilian public school caught a violent scene breaking out between a trans-identified male student and a young female. The male can be seen pulling the girl from the women’s restroom by her hair and throwing her to the floor where he begins to thrash and kick her repeatedly.
The fight purportedly broke out after the girl expressed discomfort with the male’s presence in the women’s restroom.
So the male showed her how mistaken her discomfort was by throwing her to the floor and stomping her.
The violence continues until a student in red shorts steps in and pulls the trans-identified male off of the girl, who quickly gets up and begins yelling “você não é mulher!” – or, “you are not a woman!”
The trans-identified male attempts to charge at the girl once again, but the student in red shorts continues to keep him at bay.
Red shorts guy is brilliant. He’s about 7 feet tall, and when trans boy tries to get at the girl again he (red shorts) just spins him around like a rag doll.
The footage, which has almost 500,000 views across all uploads as of this publishing, has ignited a wildfire of concern across Brazilian social media.
As it should. None of this is ok.
Watch.
I mentioned elsewhere that I hate how this is referred to as a ‘fight’–that implies two people in conflict while what’s actually happening is a man assaulting a woman. I see a lot of this kind of reporting language connoting two people/sides behaving equally violently when in fact only one person/side is doing all the attacking.
guest, that’s one of the first things that entered my mind, too. When I read the first bit about it, I thought maybe she actually did some punching or scratching, not that she was beaten up. This was not a fight, it was an assault. A deliberate act of violence committed against another person, not two people punching and kicking each other.
As long as the media refuses to report honestly, trans people get a lot of traction. This will probably go into the annals of “how trans women are the most abused and oppressed minority ever”. After all, she committed violence by assuming this male was…well, male.
How, um, lady-like.
In case anybody was wondering:
“What was shown to me is that even a skinny trans / transvestite, with a physical appearance of strength similar to that of a girl, the trans showed an ease in beating up that girl, with a strength so much greater than hers that only a boy managed to stop the trans from continuing to violently attack the girl.”
Thanks Papito, I had in fact been wondering.