Reading an article on the horrific abuse of transgender people in Kyrgyzstan. The article is discussing a transwoman named Anna primarily but then then in the article it says "corrective rape" is a problem.
Execpt the following states
A survey conducted by the LGBT organisation, Kyrgyz Indigo, in 2016, found that 84% of respondents had experienced physical violence during their lifetime while 35% were victims of sexual violence.
Corrective rape is common among the LGBT community but especially among the transgender community," said Rudolph, a social worker at the LGBT shelter run by Kyrgyz Indigo.
Corrective rape is rape of lesbians and transmen. It's specifically about teaching women what their job is. But the BBC article doesn't mention that at all. It never mentions women. And I wouldnt be so upset about that if it didn't follow that little fact with
Amid the hostility, most cisgender members of the community - people who identify themselves as having the gender they were assigned at birth - have chosen to conceal their sexuality in public.
But anonymity has proved difficult for the transgender community, the majority of whom find themselves caught up in the sex industry due to discrimination in the workplace.
Those "cis" lesbians who get the privilage of hiding their sexuality and don't even have their assaults discussed as such. Their abuse is being included in article about a transwoman who is named in the article. That number is not corrective rape of transwomen, that woudnt make sense. Please don't think I'm ignoring the horrible situation trans people are in either. The story is awful but I do have a problem with using women's sexual abuse this way.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-41437866