While yes, it is good to be skeptical of those who make excuses to go out and beat up on trans people merely for being trans (and I personally discourage, in the strongest of terms, such behavior), something never sat right with me with those who complain about something called the “trans panic defense.”
Essentially, the term describes the phenomenon of those who, when they get in trouble for assaulting or killing a trans person, argue that they did what they did out of self-defense, or because they were blinded by anger by how offensive the sexual advance was.
I hope you see what the problem is with this. The mere fact that this is an issue at all is proof that there is a rape culture in the trans community.
Banning the “trans panic defense” is completely unnecessary. All claims made in a court of law, whether that be by the plaintiff or the defendant, have to be verified. That includes whether the defendant really was acting in self-defense or not. Whether they were actually provoked or baited by the victim or not.
How do we know one way or the other? You just need to ask one simple question: If the “victim” in question was a straight, “cis”-male, would their behavior at the time be considered acceptable or not?
Men: if you went up to some random woman and asked her to suck your cock, would that be acceptable? What about if you groped her?
What about if you simply flirted with her or asked her out on a date, despite knowing damned well that she wasn’t interested in you? Especially if you did this repeatedly? Especially if she were a lesbian and wasn’t interested in men?
What about if this were in a school setting, where she, like you, are forced to be in the same building, the same classroom or - heaven forbid - the same locker room, and you take advantage of this to continue harassing her?
What about if you got overly touchy with people at a convention?
What about using a creepy pet name for someone, even when that someone made it clear that it made them uncomfortable?
Sexual harassment is unacceptable. Depending on severity, violence against people who perpetrate it can actually be justified.
Usually, the first instinct that people have when people make inappropriate comments or advances towards them is to put as much space in between them and themselves as possible. However, if the perp still chooses to follow them, or if the victim is otherwise put into a position where they can’t escape from their tormentor, there’s not really much option other than to slap him across the face or give him a swift kick to the balls. And even then, that’s probably not an option, because it’s ill-advised to use violence against people who are bigger and stronger than you are. Unless you got something like a can of mace or a stun gun.
And even if the amount of violence used against the harasser is disproportionate, or even lethal, I’d still have an extremely difficult time feeling any sympathy towards them, because you’d have to be incredibly stupid to continue sexually harassing someone who could potentially get fed up with you enough to put you in the hospital, or even six feet under. Even if they had to use a concealed weapon in order to do it, even if they were desperate enough to risk prison over it.
And especially if you were overly paranoid about being bashed by a transphobe: why would you ever give someone even the smallest excuse to do so if there were actually an epidemic of trans bashing? Or if the trans panic defense were actually real?
Even if they bash you anyways, wouldn’t you want your assailant to wind up with egg on their face if they made the attempt to invoke the trans panic defense?
It’s extremely easy to not sexually harass people. It’s even easier to not do it to people you know have a predisposition towards violence. If you’re too stupid to do something as easy as that, you may not deserve to die, but you probably deserve to get your ass beat. That’s not me being transphobic, it applies to “cis” sex pests too.
It’s also very demoralizing, if not frightening, to be a victim of sexual harassment, especially if the person harassing you were incompatible with you because of differing sexual orientations, and yet doesn’t seem to care. Such feeling of fear and despair are NOT conducive to level-headed thinking or decisions, which at least partially explains why some people would feel the need to use disproportionate violence against those who sexually harass them.
Like in the case of Larry King, a 15-year-old from Oxnard, California, who was murdered for exactly this reason in 2008.
Larry King often engaged in crossdressing, made sexually inappropriate comments towards other boys, and went out of his way to seek attention, both positive and negative. He responded to negative attention by doubling down and going out of his way to annoy people. He was incredibly disruptive, and teachers were afraid to discipline him for his inappropriate behavior out of fear of being seen as “homophobic” (this was prior to the proliferation of trans activism as the terminology had yet to enter the lexicon).
He especially went out of his way to torment Brandon McInerney, even getting other students to laugh along when he sexually harassed him. None of the teachers helped him out, and instead chose to scold Brandon for expressing discomfort with Larry’s behavior. Brandon got so desperate he attempted to recruit other students to bash Larry, but none were interested. Finally, he hid a .22 revolver in his backpack and shot him in the back of the head during a computer lab session, left the classroom, and was arrested around 5 blocks away.
Don’t get me wrong: Larry King’s murder was a tragic incident, and what Brandon did was not justified. But to frame it as an anti-trans hate crime is an oversimplification, and an insult to his memory.
When you look at the whole story, it becomes immediately apparent that this was not simply an anti-trans hate crime. It was another case of a bullied student becoming desperate and murdering their tormentor(s), no longer caring that doing so would land themself behind bars.
What could have potentially been done to prevent King’s death?
The most obvious one would have been to discipline King for his disruptive behavior. Send him home and tell him to not come back until he’s willing to dress normally. Send him to detention. Suspend him. Any one of those things would have been a far more fitting punishment for his inappropriate behavior than getting shot in the back of the head by a desperate student fed up with his crap. The reason they didn’t do so was because they were afraid that it would be discriminatory. Because apparently being an obnoxious, attention-seeking pervert is intrinsic to being gay or gender nonconforming, according to the woke left.
Now before you accuse me of “victim blaming” let me make a few comparisons: while it is not appropriate to execute people by bashing people’s brains in with a stone slab if they refuse to wear a helmet while riding a bike or a motorcycle, it is still an undeniable fact that you increase the chances of massive head trauma if you don’t wear a helmet. Douchebags who flash their bling in public don’t necessarily deserve to be mugged, but their behavior still increases the chances of it happening, especially if they do it in a bad part of town. While being raped is not a fitting punishment for dressing slutty in public, it’s an undeniable fact that attracting attention to yourself, in a place where evil people are liable to hang out, is a really stupid idea.
And if you go out of your way to sexually harass people, don’t be surprised if they get so fed up with you that they resort to physical violence.
Imagine if the roles were changed somewhat. Larry King being a straight teen, sexually harassing a lesbian girl who made it clear, several times, that she wasn’t interested in men. He continues to harass her, accusing her of being a misandrist, saying shit like, “I know you want me.” If she eventually snapped and murdered that guy, far more people would sympathize with her than with Brandon.
Except of course, in recent years, now that lesbian women are accused of being transphobic for not wanting to sleep with creepy, crossdressing men.
Damn: I guess the analogy doesn’t work anymore.
Seriously, this behavior is so ingrained in trans culture, they will act shocked when you push back, even a little bit.
SJWs, and troons especially, constantly pretend to be the victim in order to justify the horrific persecution they perpetrate against those they hate. They go as far as to actively bait people in order to ruin their lives.
The trans community also believes that they have the right to sexually harass, if not outright assault, people with impunity. They’ve proved it on numerous occasions, even as early as 2013, and almost certainly earlier than that. They actually believe that their perceived enemies deserve to be victims of sexual harassment or violence.
The trans community routinely accuses anyone who refuses to sleep with them of “transphobia”. Mainly straight men and lesbian women. They routinely make rape and death threats towards those who refuse them.
Even artists like Sqrlyjack (since banned from Twitter and e621, though has since gone back to posting his disgusting art on Twitter again) have drawn their fursonas raping people they hate.
Also note that he even gave the civilian causalities of Dresden the same treatment. As evil as the Nazis were, whoever would treat the Dresden firebombing in such a manner is not human either.
Their reaction to the Super Straight meme, as short lived as it was, tells you everything you need to know.
They believe that rape by deception is perfectly acceptable if the troon “passes” well enough. Their validation is so goddamn important to these perverts that they are willing to disregard the bodily autonomy of other people in order to obtain it as they have demonstrated repeatedly, and then they have the gall to complain when their partner reacts negatively or even violently when the deception is uncovered. Even though they could have avoided that if they told the truth right off the bat, then the worst that is likely to happen would be for them to say, “no thanks”, and walk away.
What does all of this tell you? Since the trans movement shows a proclivity towards excusing rapey behavior, it would make perfect sense that they would whine about the “trans panic” defense.
As I have said numerous times on this Substack, trans people are statistically less likely to be murdered than biological men or women. To the point where they actually have to lie about the rate at which they get victimized.
What would they be so afraid of? Even if the defendant of a gay/trans bashing incident were to make the claim that they acted in self-defense, or was provoked somehow by the victim’s behavior, it would still be on them to prove it. And if they had no evidence for their defense, what’s the problem? The judge would dismiss it.
And even if such a defense were overused by those who actually do go out of their way to find trans people to victimize, would the solution be to outright eliminate anyone’s ability to defend themselves against sexual harassment or violence if the person doing it happened to be trans?
The fact is the people who whine about the “trans panic” defense the most are the ones who don’t actually have the right to complain about it.
They already believe that trans people have the right to violate the rights of others, even sexually.
Troon activists, like all leftists and bottom-feeding criminals (but I repeat myself), are cowards who become extremely upset when their victims fight back, which is why they will gaslight you into feeling bad for defending yourself, by labeling you as a “bigot,” a “racist,” or a transphobe.