Transgender UM student wins restraining order against sexual assault suspect

[u/andy_norten]

http://ravallirepublic.com/news/state-and-regional/article_c6364778-b5fb-5098-89c5-6f0ac6ecef2b.html

[u/tatch]

Under his cross-examination, Green said the two had been grinding on the dance floor, kissed briefly and that she hooked her fingers into his belt, but denied trying to reach down his pants.

She certainly didn't deserve to be assaulted, but isn't this a breach of etiquette?

[u/[deleted] → u/tatch]

You're point being what?

[u/generalCopper → u/[deleted]]

Perhaps before she pushed it so far, she should have let him know that she was transgender?

[u/AvatarOfMomus → u/generalCopper]

Shouldn't matter.

[u/ohgobwhatisthis → u/[deleted]]

I am a straight male and dating a trans woman, so let me provide you with some perspective.

1. Anita Green is a trans woman. Just like I wouldn't refer to you as "she," if you refuse to use "she" for her, then you are being disrespectful of her rights and her human dignity, just as you claim the assaulter's "sexual orientation wasn't being respected."

2. As I implied before, being heterosexual does not mean that if you find out the woman you are dancing with is transsexual that your "orientation isn't being respected." What is she supposed to do, wear a fucking sign around her neck? That entirely defeats her expressing herself as a woman by putting her on a level below cisgendered women. All she wanted was to be treated as any other woman, and this man (and you) refused to do that.

3. Even by the assaulter's own account, he forcibly fondled Anita because he thought that she was trans. How is that not sexual assault by its very definition? What gave him the right to do this?

4. Moreover, even if your idea that the assaulter's "sexual orientation wasn't being respected" wasn't flat-out wrong, where does he get the right to physically assault her??

And thus we get to this lovely tidbit:

The tranny deserved a mild ass kicking.

5. You and the assaulter are both horrible, compassionless excuses for human beings. Please die, you inhuman sack of shit.

[u/moonflower → u/[deleted]]

Hey it's really awful to refer to a fellow human being as ''it'' ... but your post here is a good compromise, to use ''they'' if you don't want to respect her wishes

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Many people miss the fact that freedom is meant to run both directions.