🧵An important factual thread from @Broonjunior KC, in contrast to some of the deliberate misinformation doing the rounds. Also worth reading interview from Baroness Kennedy, a lifelong advocate for women's rights who led the working group on misogyny. theguardian.com/law/2021/feb/2…
🧵An important factual thread from @Broonjunior KC, in contrast to some of the deliberate misinformation doing the rounds. Also worth reading interview from Baroness Kennedy, a lifelong advocate for women's rights who led the working group on misogyny. theguardian.com/law/2021/feb/2…
Baroness Kennedy’s report clearly recommended that the proposed offences in a misogyny bill should apply where the victims are ‘women or those who perpetrators perceive to be women’ this aligns with existing legislation protecting people from abuse that is motivated by prejudice.
If a man threatens to rape a woman, he is unlikely to know if the victim is born a woman or a trans woman. That behaviour should logically be seen as misogynistic. Again, this aligns with existing legislation protecting people from abuse motivated by prejudice. This is not new.
@HumzaYousaf What if the man threatening rape *is* the Transwoman in this scenario. Where does that leave you Humza?
@rampitchfork @TellingDrama @HumzaYousaf Cracking one out I suspect
@rampitchfork @HumzaYousaf And what about trans men? What if one of them is raped? Does the trans man have no protection because they were perceived as a man?
@rampitchfork @HumzaYousaf That is the same as a cis woman threatening rape.
@rampitchfork @HumzaYousaf Repeat after me: Rape. Threats. Are. Bad. Rape. Threats. Are. Bad. Rape. Threats. Are. Bad. Did you get the message? Do we need to say it a few more times? Or are you just mad because you like to threaten to rape women?
@rampitchfork @HumzaYousaf Maybe he can't be guilty of misogyny then, bc he's claiming womanhood as a shield. Where does this insanity stop
@rampitchfork @HumzaYousaf I suspect that under his ideology it is illegal if the victim is another man pretending to be a woman but legal if it's a real woman, because for her to object it would tranzfobia.
@rampitchfork @HumzaYousaf "What if your arm bursts?"
@rampitchfork @HumzaYousaf how would that be related? Trans women are far more likely to be victims of sexual assault than perpetrators of it, this law simply protects those victims.
@rampitchfork @HumzaYousaf trans people are far more likely to be assaulted then to assault, but rape is bad in any case regardless of who the person is