Thread by @LGBTLD

Ok, so here’s a Lib Dem primer on why transphobes claiming that “we aren’t transphobic, we just want to protect women” are full of … well, yeah. Settle in. Also, note this thread will contain descriptions of sexual abuse.

Time and time agin, these so called “feminists” will only show any interest at all in a given issue if there is a trans angle. Take the campaign to repeal the auto abortion provision in the Irish constitution recently - UK transphobic “feminists” ignored it until they found out…

That trans women and cis women were fighting side by side in Ireland and then they stepped in and rather than support the efforts of their Irish sisters, tried to provoke infighting over trans inclusion.

This justifiably annoyed the Irish campaigners.

But more recently they are making a big thing over women’s prisons, and trans women being in them. They say this is because they care about protecting (cis) women in these prisons. They are lying.

The Howard League have great resources on sexual violence in women’s prisons. Going to reiterate, the next tweets will talk about sexual violence.

The biggest source of sexual violence in female prisons comes from fellow (cis) women prisoners when someone has a visitor suspected of supplying them with contraband. After seeing the visitor, the inmate will often be held down by their fellow inmates and, well, cavity searched.

This is called “decrotching”.

The people complaining about trans women in female prisons have said nothing about this to our knowledge. It’s as if they don’t actually care about sexual violence unless trans women are involved.

Another huge problem is male guards coercing inmates into sex for favours.

The people complaining about trans women in female prisons have said nothing about this to our knowledge. It’s as if they don’t actually care about sexual violence unless trans women are involved.

Relationships between cis women prisoners are common, and sometimes abusive.

The people complaining about trans women in female prisons have said nothing about this to our knowledge. It’s as if they don’t actually care about sexual violence unless trans women are involved.

In fact, if you look at the stats, trans women in prisons are significantly LESS likely to be involved in perpetrating sexual violence than cis women.

But to here these self-IDed “feminists” talk, your think trans women were the start and end of the problem.

There seems little doubt, they don’t care about sexual violence in women’s prisons. They don’t care about abuse. They don’t campaign on any of it unless there is a trans angle.

So next time you get a glossy leaflet with a photogenic cis woman and lots of blurb about how there are “genuine concerns” about trans equality measures, remember this: if there’s no trans angle, these concerns evaporate.

Cis women assaulting cis women? Not their problem.

Prison guards coercing women into sex? Not their problem.

Women coerced into abusive relationships with other women? Not their problem.

None of these things help them attack trans women. Go figure.

Ends.

Addendum - note the absolute denial that cis women can be responsible for sexual violence in women’s prisons, despite them being overwhelmingly the main perpetrators of it. Prison guards get a brief mention and then dismissed because, you know, the trans.