Brutkey

Karen E. Lund 💙💛
@Karen5Lund@mastodon.social

@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca To be clear, this was (I am 99.999999% certain) a cis man, not a transgender person, and he was threatening a woman he knew, not a stranger.

I'm sure assaults in restrooms happen; I just doubt that trans women are a significant proportion of the threat.

David Mitchell :CApride:
@DavidM_yeg@mstdn.ca

@Karen5Lund@mastodon.social

Your story illustrates the point quite well: women are at risk of violence from men … and men who are ready and willing to commit gendered violence don’t disguise their masculinity to do it, no: they exaggerate their masculinity, because that masculinity is the very thing they feel gives them licence for the violence. And despite all that, a women’s washroom is one of the few places such men do not have social permission to go.

Trans women are even more likely to experience gendered violence from men (as appalling as that is to contemplate) and need the safe space of a women’s washroom and trans women certainly don’t present any more likelihood of harm to others than any other woman in there.