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Except this isn't how it goes. It goes "there's a man in there, there's a man in there and he had something in his hand. I don't know what it was. He looked like he wanted to hurt someone. A man in a dress yes. He looked crazy" https://twitter.com/KatyMontgomerie/status/1287512086495604739
It doesn't matter if it was your phone in your hand, the person making a report wants as much harm as is humanly possible to be called upon for you, so they make it vague where it needs to be, use innuendo, amp up drama and tension.
Questions like "what did they do" can be met with "they looked at me like they wanted to do something terrible" because what does a look look like anyway?
It's trivial to call down violence on trans women, and cis women do this from time to time.
It's trivial to call down violence on trans women, and cis women do this from time to time.
Our literal presence, our existence, is an offence and a threat to transphobes. Some of them may even convince themselves we're somehow threatening.
Just to add to this, this shit happens to masculine looking women and trans men too.
I'm writing from having been subject to violence, but it's not unique to me. It's a result of the intense gendering of toilet "single sex safety" being at the cost of creating gender crimes.
I'm writing from having been subject to violence, but it's not unique to me. It's a result of the intense gendering of toilet "single sex safety" being at the cost of creating gender crimes.
One of my scariest things wasn't even a bathroom, it was a false story about me that if it weren't for the fact I was literally babysitting the other side of town with witnesses could have ended really badly for me.
A growing number of GC folks follow me and given how many of you claim an interest in gender abolition you should really read something like Going Stealth to understand how gendering (and gender transgression) plays a huge role in creating security panics.
