Trans women's status as so dehumanized as to not be worth defending is long established, but even so this is pretty fucking brazen.
This is so fucking gross. When a man is raping a trans woman, she is supposed to shout, "just so you know, I'm trans". Like that is supposed to make a bloody difference. Is a rapist going to admit he was told this or is he going to lie? He is a rapist, he isn't going to tell the truth.
Just heard that Emi Koyama died yesterday, suddenly from health complications during cancer treatment. What a huge loss. I don’t have words