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Born woman?
Born female but become a woman might be a better way to express it.
I am going to take some liberties with Terri's post and try to interpet it the way I read it.
There is a difference between presenting as female and being accepted as a woman. A person might live as, work as, do everything as female but still not function as, be a woman. A perfect example is a str8 woman walking into a lesbian bar. She is given her right as a woman to be in womens space but she is not a lesbian. Transitioning and presenting as female doesn't not automatically grant a person the rights of a woman. Those rights are given by those you associate with, both men and women. They are the ultimate judges despite our best wishes. If ones sole life was work, going to the store and being home would that be living as female or would go going out dancing, dating, socializing, working, shopping and doing every single thing be called being a woman?
You might look like a duck, walk like a duck even quack like one but until the other ducks answer you, you ain't a duck!
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Beth posted:
QuoteSince transsexuals are 16 times more likely to get murdered, i would imagine we are more likely to get assaulted also.
I was a representative for a womans group to SMRT (Sexual Minorites Round Table)
http://www.transgenderlaw.org/resources/portland.htmfor a year. In that year the highest rate of hate crimes was religion based. There was one instance of a crime against a woman which later proved false. If the old board was still up I could point you to the post I made then.
That is simply not true percentage wise. We are lsss likely to have any form of violence taken against us.
these were taken from the FBI crime stats.
hate crimes 2002
incidents offenses victims offenders
Sexual Orientation: 1,244 1,464 1,513 1,438
Anti-Male Homosexual 825 957 984 1,022
Anti-Female Homosexual 172 207 221 172
Anti-Homosexual 222 259 267 225
Anti-Heterosexual 10 26 26 6
Anti-Bisexual 15 15 15 13
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Murder victims
by race and sex-2002
Sex
Race Total Male Female Unknown
White 6,757 4,852 1,905 0
Black 6,730 5,544 1,184 2
Other race 377 256 121 0
Unknown race 190 127 41 22
Total 14,054 10,779 3,251 24
