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These laws could slowly end the trend of child brides (x) | follow @this-is-life-actually

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“In previously unpublicised evidence to the Commons women and equalities committee, the British Psychological Society warned that some biological men convicted of sex crimes had “falsely claimed” to be transgender “as a means of demonstrating reduced risk and so gaining parole” or to “seek better access to females and young children through presenting in an apparently female way”.

The president of the British Association of Gender Identity Specialists, James Barrett, told the committee a “highly concerned prison governor” had received a “plethora of prison intelligence” that one dangerous offender sought transition “to make subsequent sexual offending very much easier”.” […] Based on examining the reports from the then 118 prisons in England and Wales, Fair Play for Women estimates that the total number of male-to-female transgender prisoners in men’s prisons is about 100. A further 13 trans inmates, including Winfield, have been transferred to women’s prisons, the group says.

Despite the imprecision of the figures, it appears likely, therefore, that between a third and a half of all England and Wales’s transgender prisoners — Fair Play for Women states 41% — are sex offenders. That compares with a proportion of 17% in the prison population as a whole.

The disproportionate representation of sex criminals among transgender inmates also emerges in several reports by prison monitoring boards. The monitors for the sex offenders’ prison at Stafford, covering the year to April 2017, say that towards the end of that period this single jail “held 10% of the national transgender prisoner population”.

The report for Littlehey, another sex offender-only jail, covering the period to January 2017, says there are 11 trans prisoners. At Whatton, another prison housing exclusively sex criminals, the 2016 report says there are 12 trans inmates.

Most retain their male genitalia but six are on the “pathway” to physical sex-change treatment. They can order women’s clothing and beauty accessories. […] After the Tara Hudson case, however, the policy also says that requests from other trans prisoners to be moved to women’s jails will be looked on sympathetically where there is strong evidence of their living as female before incarceration — and will be blocked if an offender is suspected of “insincere motivation”.

If the government’s proposals to allow gender self-definition go through, such controls may be removed and the number of biological men in female jails is expected to increase sharply. Nicola Williams, of Fair Play for Women, said: “Trans-identifying males will become eligible for transfer to women’s prisons, representing a serious risk to the safety, privacy and dignity of women in prison.“

There is a conflict here between transgender rights and the rights of other people such as women. What is shocking is that we are rushing into this [self-declaration] without evidence of its impacts.”

The effect can already be seen in Scotland, where this policy is broadly in place and most trans prisoners are allowed to transfer to women’s units without a gender recognition certificate. Scotland has 18 transgender prisoners, including 13 male-to-female, far more than England and Wales for its prison population size. Most are in female accommodation.”

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some thoughts on self objectification 

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https://womenintheworld.com/2018/04/16/after-fierce-rally-american-woman-wins-the-boston-marathon-for-1st-time-in-33-years/

Yaaayyyyyyyyyy !!!!! 🏆🎉

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Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to ever run the Boston Marathon in 1967, was nearly thrown out of the race by an enraged race official who attempted to tear her numbers off her body as she ran. The moment only served to remind Switzer of her mission— “I’m going to finish the race on my hands and my knees if I have to because nobody believes I can do this.“ 🔥

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!!! I hope you don’t mind me adding onto your post, but I think this is such an important experience to articulate. I arrived at gender transition, in large part, because of the intense societal pressure on women to /not/ be fat, and the transition from L → S sizes for me was huge. suddenly, it was okay to be bigger because I was still ‘small’. i could joke about stuff like not being able to find shirts that fit me, but it was now because they were too big. like you said, realistically, nothing changes about you as an individual, but men are allowed to exist as larger. men can take up space and outgrow tiny proportions, and women can’t. the difference between size S and L in women’s clothing is miniscule, and the different between size S women’s and size S men’s is massive.

women: you are allowed to exist. you are allowed to be whatever size you are. i know it sounds cliche, but you are allowed to not be a number, because the numbers that femininity assigns are inherently flawed, and you are not.

When I started wearing men’s clothes I went from wearing large shirts to small shirts and wide shoes to regular shoes. My pants size suddenly measured actual inches instead of ambiguous degrees of largeness. When I socially transitioned I went from being seen as a big girl to being seen as a small boy. Doctors stopped talking about my BMI.

I went from being a monster girl taking up too much space to a dainty little prince without the size of my body changing.

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It’s not hard to use the right words

When you’re talking to people

And you know the ones they prefer

It’s not that complicated

To use respectful language

It’s the least you can do

If you don’t it shows the truth

About you and your loyalty

To the patriarchy

Your false feminism

Hides your misogyny

TERFs are trash

We won’t stand for trans exclusionary feminism

There’s nothing radical about traditional gender binaries

If you intentionally

misgender anybody

You’re a sexist piece of trash

That deserves a brick to the teeth

Equality is for everybody

You gotta lot of nerve

coming round with that

SWERF talk TERF talk

Gonna get that sidewalk curb stomp

TERFs are trash

We won’t stand for trans exclusionary feminism

There’s nothing radical about traditional gender binaries

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The lengths men will go to in order to get laid are truly astounding tbh

#i DIED watching fhis #why did the chorus turn into screaminf

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i don’t get why men can’t just have a conversation for the sake of having a conversation. the amount of times i hear “so what’s your point?” after i say something to a dude is just !?? like my point is that i’m trying to talk to u because we are having a conversation, not everything has to be a manly debate. it’s literally so tiring

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The School for Justice, which just opened on April 6, educates survivors of sex trafficking to pursue careers in law. Eventually, these women plan to use their degrees to prosecute traffickers like the ones who abused them.

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does anyone buy piercings online? what sites would u recommend?

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#saam #sexual assault awareness month #sexual assault #feminism

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Parineeti Chopra responds to a male reporter who claims to know nothing about periods (menstrual cycle). [X]

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I thought you lovely people would appreciate my Viva La Vulva embroidery “Society tells you to hate your vulva! Too long, too large, too dark, I say to hell with that! Yours is perfect! Shun what media, porn, and society tells you, and love your vulva. Viva la revolución! Viva la vulva!”

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I see your genderbread person and raise you one gender unicorn lmao.

We used to use the genderbread person in our schools too, until apparently it wasn’t progressive enough anymore, so we moved onto the unicorn? It’s painful and I am so sorry your school is spreading this kind of info lol.

Also, here’s a higher quality image of the genderbread person for anyone interested in reading the tiny text:

I cant believe my teacher gave this to the class… He also gave a packet that said “lesbians are women attracted to women, but transwomen can be lesbian too.”

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