Amazing article on medium entitled "Rape Survivors are Transphobic Terfs. So Are Lesbians, Vaginas, Women’s sports, and well literally everything female.

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I spotted this and wanted to share another great article on why we women will keep fighting against erasure.

medium.com/@oliviabroustra/rape-survivors-are-transphobic-terfs-40ee6bb8d297

Fantastic article. It sums up the issues perfectly.
I do think it is undermined though by using an image of Caster Semenya to illustrate the issue with women's sports. Semenya isn't male. She's female with an intersex condition, if I understand correctly so it's not a case of a male competing against women.

I suspect Medium won't allow the article to stay up long. Not with an actual picture of the ballwaxer on show.

Just realised my two posts make it sound like the person in the first post is the same one referenced in the second, which I imagine most of you will know it's not!

Is JY the same person who demanded a ball waxing by a Muslim? I thought that was a second Canadian creep.

Also agree that Semenya shouldn’t be there. Intersex and transgender are two different things.

Good article, with as noted above the case of Castor Semenya. Semenya has a defined intersex condition and I think conflating that with transgender is incorrect. Semenya has never intentionally cheated - whether she should compete against women is a separate question and would need medical scrutiny to see and quantify her possible advantages. I don’t think including her here is helpful.

Semenya is a one off case and should be handled as such - this isn’t the same thing as men cheating by entering women’s sports.

Shame about Caster Semenya being used to illustrate an otherwise good point. Semenya is an intersex female isn't she? Not a man.

To be honest as a rape victim (I don’t like the term survivor, rape is a crime not a natural disaster) I’m sick to the bloody gills of being used as an example in arguments against trans people.
I don’t speak for all rape survivors/victims but I wish people would let us speak for ourselves instead of putting words in our mouths.

It's a real shame Semenya's picture is there as otherwise I think I'd share that. I really don't want to with that inaccuracy as I think it undermines the article a bit and I suspect would end up being the focus of discussion.

Great article though; very succinct.

I think the problem for lesbians is not so much unexpected penis, because ya know, we can tell what sex a person is, but the penis being expected, and refusal resulting in excommunication from the community, threats and abuse, or actual violence.

I don’t speak for all rape survivors/victims but I wish people would let us speak for ourselves instead of putting words in our mouths.

Well the author of the piece is a rape survivor, so she is speaking for herself.

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I don’t speak for all rape survivors/victims but I wish people would let us speak for ourselves instead of putting words in our mouths.

The example used comes from a real incident. Nobody is speaking for you, they are speaking for the woman concerned who raised the issue herself.

I thought there were two creeps, JY, who has made a career of persecuting female waxers in general, and a second creep who tried the same, was offered a waxing and then turned it down because he specifically wanted a Muslim to do it.

The fact that social media protects these creeps makes it difficult to tell how many of them there are.

Really excellent article.

I thought there were two creeps, JY, who has made a career of persecuting female waxers in general, and a second creep who tried the same, was offered a waxing and then turned it down because he specifically wanted a Muslim to do it.

I think there are two, however, I think JY also targeted immigrant women (I think I read somewhere that the women were poor and immigrants, but I might be misremembering), and he is extremely racist against Muslims.

It is a real shame that the author made the Caster Semenya mistake. Great article otherwise.

Excellent article. The version I read had the mention of Caster Semanya edited out, which is right. There was no reason to drag Semanya into this mess.

She has now removed Caster Semenya from the article and apologised for her research error!

Oh good!

Excellent - important to be factual.

Also noting the ability to accept and remove an error in good faith. Not a virtue the other side has for sure ...

Went to follow her on twitter, but looks like she's deleted her account. Or someone else has had it deleted.