"Do the women and girls being abused in Ukraine right now have any doubt about whether they are women (and prey) or not?"
I couldn't agree more. I forget who said it, but somebody asked recently, "You know who has no problem defining 'woman'? The Taliban."
Sex-based violence and oppression is a very real thing. To be clear, so is transphobic violence. But they're different things. And happen on vastly different scales. I will not harm overlook the needs of one group to coddle the feelings of another.
"Do the women and girls being abused in Ukraine right now have any doubt about whether they are women (and prey) or not?"
I couldn't agree more. I forget who said it, but somebody asked recently, "You know who has no problem defining 'woman'? The Taliban."
Sex-based violence and oppression is a very real thing. To be clear, so is transphobic violence. But they're different things. And happen on vastly different scales. I will not harm overlook the needs of one group to coddle the feelings of another.