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[–]MezozoicGay 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

In anglo-sphere maybe as you are saying (and homophobia there was never too big), in other countries transgender people often seen as just weird gay people, and used by media to weaponize against homosexuality, saying that "see, it spreads, and people are becoming this stupid". I know few countries where are laws similar to Section 28 and where it is allowing to change sex in birth certificate, which are thinking to rewoke that ability, because they are thinking that gay men are using this as loophole in law to marry each other and live together in homosexual marriages after one of them changing sex. Other countries are seeing it the other way around - that changing sex will cure from homophobia (with the most visible example as Iran).

In SA and Asian countries, most transwomen who are killed - are prostitutes.

[–]MarkTwainiac 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

In NA and Asian countries, most transwomen who are killed - are prostitutes.

I think you might have meant in SA and CA there, not NA. I don't know about Canada, but in the US specifically, under 30% of TIMs who died of homicide in the five years from 2015 through 2019 were prostitutes.

Looking at homicides of TIMs in this time period where the circumstances and perpetrator were able to be ascertained, the largest group - 37% - were killed in incidents of domestic violence by their male spouses, partners, lovers or roommates with whom there was an ongoing pattern of male-on-male physical violence.

[–]MezozoicGay 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes, I meant South America and asian countries like Thailand.

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

Yeah, that's what I thought. I see you've changed it now.

Also, in Thailand and the Philippines and some other Asian countries, the sex industry and sex tourism/colonization are so huge and the "ladyboy" thing is so predominant that it seems that a lot - perhaps the majority - of gay male youths are expected/coerced/forced to pretend they are female and go into prostitution (like millions of poor girls and women are). Gay men who live as gay men without any pretending to be something else in those countries seem like they are much, much rarer than in the West. Which is tragic.