false accusations of sexual violence and predatory behaviour have
historically been leveraged against trans women to dispose of
individuals and isolate them from their communities and this still happens. “believe victims” is an insufficient metric of justice. counter-claims are common place, especially against trans women, especially counter-claims of a violent or sexual nature because people are already willing, even eager to believe trans women are sexually violent.how are we just gonna sit here and pretend abusers havent realised that the quickest, easiest way to discredit accusations against them is to make the same accusations in return and turn it into a struggle of “who believes who,” which they are likely to win because abusers are very good at having lots of friends and sounding believable.
and can we maybe just establish once and for all that believing one of those people, because you looked at the power dynamics at play in the relationship, because their story makes more sense to you, because that’s all any of us have to go on unless you happened to be there, does not make you a rape or abuse apologist. we can’t let that be what those words mean.
Yes yes yes.
I wrote about this here: http://queeranarchism.tumblr.com/post/126612642508/keep-an-eye-on-the-emergency-exit-in-your-social
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