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   Kotaro (kotaro@kotaro.me)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 00:22:18 JST Kotaro

   As usual around X in Japan, the influencers are fueling transphobia. Even if a man who pretends to be a woman breaks into a women's bath in a public bathhouse, the incident has nothing to do with the way transgender people live in the real world.

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     alexanderhay (alexanderhay@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 00:22:17 JST alexanderhay

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     @kotaro It's worth noting that straight women, who've had children and everything, are now being harrassed in toilets because they look too 'butch'.

     Concern trolling over transgender people 'invading women's spaces' aside, this is really about enforcing gender norms.

     https://www.vox.com/2016/5/18/11690234/women-bathrooms-harassment

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     alexanderhay (alexanderhay@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 00:22:18 JST alexanderhay

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     @kotaro It all seems to come down to whether the rapist is wearing a dress or not, rather than the more important issue of them being, well, a *rapist*.

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     Kotaro (kotaro@kotaro.me)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 00:22:18 JST Kotaro

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     • alexanderhay

     @alexanderhay@mastodon.social I think that's ridiculous, but I think it's even more unfortunate that for most people, gender is binary, and unless you're sexy to a certain extent, you fall victim to lookism.

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     Kotaro (kotaro@kotaro.me)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 00:22:18 JST Kotaro

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     • alexanderhay

     @alexanderhay@mastodon.social In reality, there are many girls who look like boys and boys who look like girls, and I think that in most cases it is more difficult to live in the gender before the transition than in the new gender.

     HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴 repeated this.