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[–]sisterinsomnia 16 insightful - 2 fun16 insightful - 1 fun17 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

Is this part of being sex positive? I have not read enough about prostitution, but I am almost completely sure that all sex workers face a very high risk of being murdered because the men who want to butcher women know that they are most likely to get off if she is a prostitute.

The bit about black trans women facing the highest murder rate of all groups is not actually true. I saw one calculation where in the US it came to roughly the same rate as the rate black women in the same job face in genera. All murders are horrible and all murderers are despicable, but it is odd how one neo-group of black women (with male bodies) gets all the attention while natal black women have to jump up and down and yell to even be noticed.

The overall rate at which transgender people are murdered in the US is actually realy low, lower than the rate at which all women are murdered. So even TRAs dare not lie about that rate, but they have chosen to hook onto the BLM with the black trans woman rate. It is still a lie that it would be the highest rate.

Then there is the fact that many of the recent killings of black trans women in the US were not by the punters but rather similar in type to how all murders are. In other words, a lot of intimate partner killings or fights within the family or drug deals gone bad and so on. What she says about sex workers deserving to exist in their careers without consistent shame and violence is very true, of course. But which group is it which does the shaming and the violence? Who are the people we hear yelling about whores all the time and so on? It is not SWERFs. Which is a completely nonsensical term.

I haven't watched the video yet, just read the text.

[–]terfy_delight 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Then there is the fact that many of the recent killings of black trans women in the US were not by the punters but rather similar in type to how all murders are. In other words, a lot of intimate partner killings or fights within the family or drug deals gone bad and so on.

Every single article about trans women who have been murdered fit into this category. I can't remember a single one (I'm sure there has to be, though) where they were murdered for being trans. In the black subs on reddit, there was a circulation of a TW being jumped, but turns out if bc the TW was (drunk?) driving, hit a teenager, and left the scene. Yeah, its wrong to jump someone, but it wasn't bc they were trans.