I lost the link, but read on Twitter that girls under 10 are coming into the hospitals in Ukraine with rectal/vaginal tearing.
And of course older girls and women are also being raped regularly.
Turns out everyone knows exactly what it means to be a woman/girl when they want to rape us.
Because the media endlessly reports TIMs crying that they can't woman-identify their way out of serving in Ukraine's army and, I dunno, protecting these little girls from the Russians that are raping them. It's enraging. They claim to identify as female people, they refuse to identify WITH female people.
THANK YOU.
It honestly sickens me to see trans issues dragged into a topic like this. It's insanely disrespectful to the victims and all it does is bring the conversation back to MEN. And I'm fucking tired of talking about men and their feelings.
I’ve posted in the past about some atrocity against women and it was deleted for being in the wrong circle. The problem is this doesn’t really fit in any circle.
But further, it does relate to the trans bullshit because the inability to define woman or girl means that we can do nothing to protect them when they are victims of horrific abuse like this.
It also relates because THIS is the hardest part of being a woman, not picking out an outfit like what Jenner claimed.
Keeping the focus on what we as women are fighting against is key to actually bringing attention to WHY women and girls must have safe, single sex spaces.
Men will rape little girls. We must be protected from them through women managed spaces.
I think it does though. WOMEN (and girls, horrifically) are the ones being raped. Our biology is what makes us vulnerable to this particular type of oppression. Middle class, middle aged white men who get off dressing up “like women” are not, in fact, the most oppressed class of citizens.
This is what womanhood actually entails.
It matters because stories like this showcase the fact that trans identities can only exist in privileged, peaceful, affluent countries. The girls left behind in Ukraine can't escape rape by claiming to have internal boy souls.
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I get what you're saying. But do we really have to bring trans stuff into this topic that has nothing to do with it?