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No sé si os acordáis que en verano me fui unos días de las redes por un hilo que me dejó muy mal cuerpo. Es este, de la Etxe, justificando una agresión a una mujer trans, llamándolo "autodefensa".

 Ahora que se lamenta de que la acosan mientras participa en una campaña de acoso y derribo, quiero arrojar luz sobre las barbaridades que defiende.

AVISO de que hablo de agresiones y muertes. Y el hilo es largo porque hay datos. Agradezco difusión y tal.
A esta mujer, Lara Rae, dos borrachas le pegaron una paliza usando karate, le lesionaron la muñeca y llamaron a un hombre para que la siguiera golpeando. ¿Su delito? Usar el baño.
La Etxebarría justifica el ataque diciendo que es un instinto que tienen las Mogeres de verdad cuando ven a alguien a quien no deben usar el baño. Gritar, insultar a alguien y golpearle entre dos hasta lesionarle porque crees que no debería estar es una reacción instintiva.
Llamaron a un hombre para que la golpeara, pero el hombre se fue. Siguieron insultándola, incluso después de que llegara seguridad. ¡Pura reacción instintiva! Seguramente, ser un par de borrachas violentas y tránsfobas no tuvo nada que ver.
El hilo continúa comparando la apariencia de la mujer agredida con las pintas que tiene una mujer trans "correcta" para que no la usen como piñata si quiere mear.
Múltiples cirugías, varios años de hormonación, maquillaje, pelo largo, vestido, aspecto femenino. Eso son miles de dólares y transición temprana, a la que tanto se oponen.
Detalle guay: dice que es lo que una mujer trans tiene que ser para poder ir al baño. NO para que la reconozcan como mujer. También: ¿a partir de qué punto de la transición dejan de estar justificadas las agresiones "instintivas"?
¿Cuando llevas dos años de hormonación? ¿Cuando te pones pechos? ¿Cuando te pones falda y tacones? Espera, ¿no es eso un estereotipo autoginefílico pervertido que se ríe del sufrimiento femenino?
Pone otra vez la foto de la mujer trans "incorrecta" para dejar claro el poco passing que tiene.
Utiliza también el "imagina que te está esperando a la salida". No sé, Karen, a lo mejor solo quiere mear.

Y como ejemplo del peligro usa... tíos cis que en ningún momento fingieron ser mujeres trans.
Sobre lo de "personas como esta", Lara Rae pasó por todo el proceso de cambio y tiene ID femenina, que intentó enseñar. La golpearon igual.
https://t.co/nUFyjSmW6y
(CW asesinato) Caso relacionado: a Alexa Luciano Ruiz, una mujer trans sin techo, la mataron después de usar un baño de mujeres. Difundieron su vídeo y la estuvieron acosando durante horas. Me pregunto si fue una reacción instintiva también.
https://t.co/aaMPxnpuSD
Fijaos cómo el criterio de "tiene pinta de tío, así que es peligrosa" afecta desproporcionadamente a gente con pocos recursos. No todo el mundo puede permitirse cirugías de feminización facial, hormonas, ropa femenina ni maquillaje.
(CW violencia) Aquí las terf de Portland están celebrando cómo se pegó una paliza a una mujer trans después de usar el baño de mujeres. Fijáos cómo piden que ojalá se pudiera hacer eso en América.
La historia es falsa. (AVISO VIOLENCIA) La mujer trans es Dandara dos Santos. Un grupo de hombres la sacó a rastras de su casa, la golpearon hasta dejarla medio muerta, la torturaron y vejaron y después la ejecutaron de un tiro mientras rogaba por su vida.
https://t.co/p0VjOfRUpc
Las terf estuvieron difundiendo mentiras para justificar su asalto. ¿Cuál es su reacción al ver la tortura de otro ser humano?
Nota: si encontráis el vídeo, no lo veáis. Es horrible.
Este es el secreto: si construyes la identidad de alguien como una amenaza, en seguida puedes justificar todo tipo de violencias hacia ellos.

Entretanto, vamos a ver las estadísticas de mujeres trans asaltando a mujeres cis en baños. Es cero.
https://t.co/up9IHF3nod
En serio, cero.
https://t.co/G0BfM7U3bA
Pero quería volver a una observación del hilo sobre mujeres trans aceptables o no en los baños.
¿Querría decir que para las terf, es razonable atacar a mujeres cis si tienen el pelo corto y apariencia masculina? SÍ.
https://t.co/VAU68hs54O
No, espera, que tengo otro ejemplo. A una adolescente.
https://t.co/Nboi6YvnLH
Y otro.
https://t.co/Dl4P0i7iWL
Y otro.
https://t.co/jOAqxuACZ6
Y otro.
https://t.co/gootrWchQA
Y otro.
https://t.co/WBUCMQ25Ja
Y otro. Aquí atacaron a una superviviente de cáncer tras una mastectomía, porque tetas=mujer.
https://t.co/RREvq9XrWr
Y otro.
https://t.co/UMoeAyprDG
Y otro. ¿Empezáis a ver un patrón de las mujeres a las que acosan las terf, las supuestas abolicionistas del género?
https://t.co/z5D26AXg9R
Y otro.
https://t.co/Yu8H9P2pUG
Y otro (aquí una mujer a la que acosan regularmente).
https://t.co/H5aQTwSwT6
Aquí un señor acosando sexualmente a una mujer cis, diciendo que le "enseñaría la polla"
https://t.co/3ohBi8LIkf
CW Violencia carcelaria: una mujer cis a la que metieron en una cárcel de hombres durante diez horas. La acosaron e intimidaron hasta que se meó encima. ¿Por qué? Porque la vieron tomar estrógeno para la menopausia.
https://t.co/judzOgUbR9
(Nota: el carcelero le dijo " 'You are a woman. Good luck if you're alive tomorrow'.". si trataron así a una mujer cis, ¿cómo crees que tratan a las mujeres trans en las cárceles?).
Vaya. Parece que crear un clima de paranoia tránsfoba ha detenido 0 agresiones. Sin embargo, ha azuzado a decenas de personas tránsfobas a cometer agresiones verbales, físicas y sexuales.
¿Pero eso a las terf les importa? Aquí está Maya Forstater, a la que la Etxe defendió, hablando sobre cómo no pasa nada si algunas mujeres cis se quedan fuera de los baños por no parecerlo, lo que importa es que las Boenas Mogeres estén a gusto.
Aquí Kathleen Stock, otra terf famosa, diciendo que las mujeres butch son "daño colateral por el bien mayor". Recordemos que "daño colateral" son agresiones a a mujeres cis butch. El "bien mayor" es hacer daño a mujeres trans.
https://t.co/c31ISquhpM
Estos mensajes solo han servido para fomentar el odio. Lo curioso es que la paranoia de los baños empezó como una iniciativa de lobbies de extrema derecha para separar la T del resto del colectivo. La controversia creada por los baños es artificial.
https://t.co/8wO3XHrgXY
Por cierto, que yo cuando tenía passing y entraba en el baño de chicas me preguntaron algunas veces que qué hacía allí. La última vez estaba en mi décima semana de embarazo. Menos mal que no hubo reacciones instintivas, porque, sorpresa, la mayoría de la gente quiere mear.🙃
Ah, a mi mujer la han atacado en bares. La han atacado por la calle. No tenéis ni idea de lo que es vivir así, con este miedo pegajoso en las entrañas. Con la garganta que se encoge un poco cada vez que dice "voy al baño". Sabiendo que hay gente dispuesta a justificarlo.
Y, por cierto, si se le ocurre quejarse de acoso por un hilo con hechos, a mi pareja y a mí nos llevan las terf acosando meses con asunciones sobre nuestra vida personal y ella ha difundido sus mensajes :)

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