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Why is prison rape of trans people the thing we care about not prison rape of everyone?
In America nobody cares about either thing actually.
Thats fair. I have pointed out that if you include prison men get raped more, and people dont typically care.
Yeah if you have 10000 of one group of people and 10 of another, the bigger group is going to have more stuff going on.
CW: rape
Because trans people are way more likely to be the victims of prison rape than cis people.Furthermore, trans people are more likely to be incarcerated than cis people. 16 percent of trans adults have been incarcerated, compared to 2.7 percent of cis adults.
https://www.vera.org/news/gender-and-justice-in-america/transgender-people-at-higher-risk-for-justice-system-involvement
In any case, caring about trans victims of prison rape obviously does not disqualify you from caring about every other victim of prison rape.
We do. It's just that trans women in prison are disproportionate rape targets.
And ~~we want equality, so either rape more men, or rape more trans men in women prisons~~ it's only trying to highlight that the transphobia is not about protecting anyone, but discriminating.
The context being set by conservative media on a daily basis spewing the idea of a caricature ~transvestite~ posing a danger to women. In case you have missed that. It was well known that men pose a deadly danger to trans women long before the right decided to demagogue on this issue. See below for my quote of Rowling's who actually cheers trans women being raped to death in male prisons. I hope you now see the relevance.