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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 3h

It reads like somebody who has Opinions about autistic people which are not great. 🤨

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 3h

… Are you spying on me? 👀

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 12h

This case is about a woman who performed oral sex on a man. First, whether she’s trans will never be relevant to any sex act, and second, whether she had a penis or not is irrelevant to what they were doing which didn’t involve her genitalia in any way, shape, or form.

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 12h

And requiring marginalised people to disclose our status each time under the threat of being sent to prison is particularly pernicious. It can be dangerous to let people know you’re trans, and yet the law expects you to do it under the threat of being branded a rapist. This is genocidal.

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 12h

That’s what’s insidious here IMO. Deception can absolutely be used to make somebody have sex with you in a way which makes the whole thing completely non-consensual but the way this law works, it just punishes trans and gender non-conforming people instead. Medical *history* is irrelevant to sex.

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 12h

If you lie about having had vasectomy, or that you’ll use a condom? Or even about identity IMO. A theoretical possibility that’s pretty out there but let’s say you have two identical twins and one of them pretends to be the other in order to get sex from somebody else. There’s no valid consent here.

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 12h

IMO in some cases a deception *can* vitiate consent, but that’s like… first and foremost intentional—you *know* that the other person wouldn’t agree if they were informed and therefore you create a deception in order to *make* them agree. And it’s about something relevant to the sex act in question.

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Dr. Johnathan Flowers, Blade Wielding Bisexual (Lordean arc) @shengokai.blacksky.app · 18h

Since Link is banned, his mutual aid Fridays have gone with him. This was one of the most altruistic things I’ve seen anyone on this site do.

In light of this, I’m gonna try to fill the gap.

Drop your mutual aid requests under this thread and I will repost them for as long as I can.

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 13h

Love to hear how we’re taking over the government, so much better than the actual news.

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 14h

@velvette.bsky.social Qu'est-ce qui se passe là-bas? 😂

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 14h

Macron reappoints Sébastien Lecornu as French prime minister

Lecornu, who resigned as PM on Monday, is tasked with urgently delivering a budget to parliament The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has named Sébastien Lecornu as prime minister, reappointing him after he quit the job earlier this week. Lecornu’s immediate task will be to deliver a budget to parliament by the end of Monday. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 15h

Trans women are not men, but thanks for proving that you’re just a bigot looking for an opportunity to insult people. 👍🏻

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 15h

So many people showing what they really think about us right now.

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Portiageist @sailorportia.bsky.social · 15h

Can't wait for the UK to invent the charge "impersonating a heterosexual/homosexual" to criminalize cis straight & gay people being happily in relationships with trans people. Bisexuality, of course, will be illegal outright under new sumptuary laws for being extravagant under austerity conditions

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 15h

That the sex is not consensual if the trans woman doesn’t disclose that she’s trans. 😬

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Jess O'Thomson @jessothomson.co.uk · 15h

I wrote an article in January about where we have ended up in English law re. "deception as to sex", and what that means for trans people. I think it's likely we can expect to see more of these sorts of cases going forward.

www.wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-teen...

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 15h

You’re owed information about current STIs, the history doesn’t concern you.

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 15h

The judge is basically saying that every time a trans woman has sex with a straight man, it’s rape by deceit. It’s more than clear what’s being done here and it’s criminalising our mere existence.

MayaScientist @madscientist212.bsky.social · 17h

Not exaggerating btw. If a trans woman lying about being trans is rape, and *by definition* deception is the only way a straight man would ever have sex with her, than all consensual sex between het men and trans women is by definition rape.

I'm sure her trial was fair. archive.is/O1SbO#select...

A paragraph from a BBC article, which says the following: "The judge said Watkin posed a high risk of offending in the same way in the future and, while her gender dysphoria was a factor in her actions, at the 'heart' of it was Watkin's 'frustration at wanting sexual experiences with heterosexual males', which 'by definition' she needed to 'deceive to achieve.'"

Note that "frustration at wanting sexual experiences with heterosexual males", "by definition", and "deceive to achieve" are in quotation marks, indicating that they are the judge's exact words, not the BBC summarizing or paraphrasing them.

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 16h

Yeah, just posted a correction at the same time as your reply. I was incensed because of how this gets used against us. Thanks for chiming in too. ❤️

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 16h

Other forms of sexual assault (not by penetration) are in the third category. It doesn’t matter what’s the gender of a victim, the only things which matter are if the offender committed penetration and if yes, if it was committed with a penis. This is very bad but in no way is it legal to rape men.

פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 16h

Correction because I was incensed while replying to this, as it’s a very common TERF talking point: English law draws a patriarchal distinction between different forms of sexual assault. Only penetration with a penis qualifies as ‘rape’. Penetration with anything else carries the same penalty.

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 16h

No, it’s not. If a man gets raped in the UK it’s called sexual assault by penetration instead of rape, which is stupid but carries the same penalty as rape.

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 16h

There’s no defending a law which functions in this way. Its only purpose is to criminalise transitude and gender non-conformity.

If you refuse to see this, you’re simply an enemy.

פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 16h

Another curious fact: under English law not disclosing your birth sex is rape by deceit, but if you’re a cop during an undercover operation and get people to sleep with you under a false pretence this way, the law see this as perfectly consensual and legal.

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 16h

Another curious fact: under English law not disclosing your birth sex is rape by deceit, but if you’re a cop during an undercover operation and get people to sleep with you under a false pretence this way, the law see this as perfectly consensual and legal.

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 17h

The thing is, she simply didn’t disclose that she’s trans and that’s enough under English law to convict her of rape by deceit, bc not disclosing this fact is deemed to vitiate consent.

She’s literally going to prison for nothing more than not telling she’s trans to the guy she gave a blowjob to.

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פּאָלאַ ⚢ @pola.myatproto.social · 17h

Should I maybe wear some badge so that everybody knows? A yellow star perhaps?

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