But how do they know?
It’s the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.
UN Women (which doesn’t always know which people are women) tells us:
Violence against women and girls remains one of the most prevalent and pervasive human rights violations in the world. Globally, almost one in three women have been subjected to physical and/or sexual intimate partner violence, non-partner sexual violence, or both, at least once in their life.
For at least 51,100 women in 2023, the cycle of gender-based violence ended with one final and brutal act—their murder by partners and family members. That means a woman was killed every 10 minutes.
So are we talking about women here? Or about women plus men who pretend to be women? It does make a difference, because men kill women more than women kill men.
It’s frustrating that we have been put into the position of having to ask “What do they mean by women and girls?” when that should never be necessary. It’s particularly galling when it has to be asked in the context of the horrendous violence meted out to female people of all ages.
All the statistics I’ve seen show that men and boys who claim to be the opposite sex are the safest demographic by far. Indulged, pampered, revered even, except for those who are prostituted in places like Brazil; and even then, they seem to be less at risk than the women in the same position. White men claiming to be women in more advanced and stable countries are disproportionately likely to be wildly successful and influential – taking over ‘womanhood’ is just another power-grab for them.