Victim Blaming and Transgender Rape Victims
Washington City Paper
by Amanda Hess
January 29, 2010
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/sexist/2010/01/29/victim-blaming-and-transgender-rape-victims/Last year, we dredged the ugliest depths of victim blaming when a middle-school girl was gang-raped outside her homecoming dance, and a bunch of
>-bleeped-<s got on the Internet to shame her for drinking alcohol. Thought that was bad? Consider what happens when a rape accusation is coming from a trans woman.
Yesterday, the New York Daily News reported that a New York woman recently filed a lawsuit against former NFL player Eric Green, claiming that Green "forcibly sodomized her" in his Scottsdale, Ariz. condo. According to the woman's suit, Green claimed to be taking her back to the condo so that "he could telephone his dealer, get some marijuana, and get high," and also, bizarrely, to "introduce her to his friend, the Prince of Bahrain." Green and the woman began having consensual sex, the suit claims. But when Green realized that his sex partner was transgender, the woman claims that Green held her down and forcibly sodomized her against her will.
