#v-coding

[certifiedsexed]

I think people are getting tripped up on tme/tma because they're thinking of it in terms of individual/interpersonal instances of bigotry, rather than on a structural systemic level

Probably. A lot of them also dislike the idea they may oppress others (specifically on a gender basis) unfortunately but I think plenty of them are definitely just stuck on interpersonal instances.

Like, just throwing some structural examples out:

V-coding, the majority of trans women being banned from competing as women in the Olympics, extra requirements for TMA people to access HRT/gender affirming surgeries/change their gender marker that are imposed in a large majority of countries, increasing restrictions and laws specifically targeting TMA people (internationally) (ranging from transitioning to access to areas with kids, ect), the wage gap-There are so many examples.

But unfortunately people often ignore things on the structural/systemic level.

[tixythepixy]

A 2018 report from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law along with a subsequent report in the UCLA Journal of Gender and Law, found that it was common for trans women placed in men's prisons to be assigned to cells with aggressive cisgender male cellmates as both a reward and a means of placation for said cellmates, so as to maintain social control and to, as one inmate described it, "keep the violence rate down". Trans women used in this manner are often raped daily. This process is known as "V-coding", and has been described as so common that it is effectively "a central part of a trans woman's sentence". The report also found it common for correctional officers to publicly strip search trans women inmates, before putting their bodies on display for not only the other correctional officers, but for the other prisoners. Trans women in this situation are sometimes made to dance, present, or masturbate at the correctional officers' discretion. The prisoners serving as customers for these women are informally referred to as "husbands". A 2021 California study found that 69% of trans women prisoners reported being made to perform sexual acts they would have rather not, 58.5% reported being violently sexually assaulted, and 88% overall reported being made to take part in a "marriage-like relationship". Trans women who physically resist the customer's advances are often criminally charged with assault and placed in solitary confinement, the assault charge then being used to extend the woman's prison stay and deny her parole.

This not only happens in the USA, but happens globally and there has been documented cases of it happening in France and the UK as well.

Many people aware of it fear that it will drastically increase after Trump's Project 2025 as trans women are arrested and imprisoned for simply existing in public, this is a real possibility, and the influence can spread globally to cause other nations to do this too.

Best I can say is: SPREAD AWARENESS PEOPLE!

I saw this on reddit and it's really important to share so please share this especially if you have a lot of reach, this is absolutely horrifying and it needs to be stopped.

[katrafiy]

Transunity folks will go on and on about how the statement "trans men aren't oppressed for being men, they are oppressed for being trans" is wrong, and then immediately turn around and, without a hint of irony, say that our oppressors dont oppress trans women for being women, but instead because they are misandrists and see us as men.

They don't see us as men.

They don't treat us like men.

They see us as women they can openly and freely abuse.

Under patriarchy, being a trans woman is one of the worst possible thing you can be, and cis men are pressured to stay in line lest they be treated like the way society treats trans women.

A classic example of this is the practice of "V-coding" trans women in prisons. For those who aren't aware upwards of 80% of transfem inmates get sexually assaulted. Trans women being used to control male prisoners is known as "v-coding" and is so common as to essentially be a defacto part of any trans woman's sentence at this point.

I encourage you all to read more about this, and here's a really good source with more information:

https://www.repository.law.indiana.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1087&context=ijlse

The most relevant portion appears on page 314, where it says the following:

"Even PREA-compliant prison facilities can continue to use sexual violence as a management tool. Correctional officers function as gatekeepers to sexual activity, selectively choosing which sexual activity to write up and which to overlook. One common tactic among men’s prison facilities is “V-coding,” or placing transgender women in cells with aggressive cisgender male inmates (who continuously sexually assault them) as a form of social control. V-coding is so common that it has become “a central part of a transwoman’s sentence.” The stories are all the same. Alexis Giraldo, for instance, was housed with a cisgender male prisoner who had status as an employee. The employee, and eventually one of his friends, requested she live with them. They then started raping her daily. Despite her several requests, she was never moved to a different cell."

Our oppressors don't see us as men.

They don't treat us like men.

They know we are women.

They see us as women.

And they treat us like "girls they can hit".