"Transgender son killed"

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news.sky.com/story/amp/father-arrested-on-suspicion-of-killing-transgender-son-11751919

I am so sad to read this. No one should live in fear or be killed for who they are. This is the actual violence that needs campaigning against rather than thought crime or literal violence. ^
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Any murder is unacceptable but to kill your own child because he wanted to live as a woman.

I know that children and women are frequently killed and I'm not dismissing those murders as less than this or anything like that at all. I think this has struck me because of all the claims of literal violence when shit like this actually happens. It's not hurt feelings. It's murder.

Sorry, I'm not very eloquent today but hope you know where I'm coming from.

Male violence is an epidemic, and I really wish it could be addressed.

As awful as it is, it's not a scratch on the surface in comparison to the amount of women/girls that are killed in "honour" every day sometimes for as little as speaking to the opposite sex.
I feel this has only reached the headlines because it's to do with LGBT.
It's an outrage of course and tragic most definetly, maybe I'm seeing it from a different stance but there is hardly ever an article about an honour killing when it's a woman victim and if there is, it's never mainstream media.

These "honour" killings are an epidemic in Pakistan - there was an article in the guardian today quoting 524 "honour" killings in the year Oct 2016 - Oct 2017 in Pakistan.

god that's horrific

men feeling that they own their family, their wives and children, like they're just things. what is it about men that makes them behave this way? I hope to fuck it's nurture, because the alternative is too awful to contemplate

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/jun/30/sanam-maher-on-the-trail-of-murdered-pakistani-social-media-star-qandeel-baloch?CMP=ShareiOSAppp_Other

According to this, there's a small area of Pakistan where women aren't allowed shoes as they won't be tempted to leave the house in bare feet. And the descriptions of the burquas some of them wear - so heavy that there's a funnel at the top to allow air in or they'd suffocate in the heat.

Bernard I think it's nurture, a very extreme form of patriarchal society that makes them believe women and children are their property. I remember some years ago doing research on honour killings in Jordan, and there it was very common to get an underage son to kill his sister as he'd get a year in prison max, as he was a juvenile. Obviously he'd get to prove his manhood too and be feted when he got out.