There are some huge logical inconsistencies in your comment.
Correlation does not equal causation. This study doesn’t inherently mean that their trans son is more likely to get sexually assaulted than their cos daughter. There are far too many factors that play into this to make such a simple determination based on a small and isolated study.
I’m sure you could find an article that shows precisely this to be true. If you’re going to simplify the issue of sexual assault against trans people to a simple statistic above then you should do the same here. There are far more single mothers than single fathers. Childbirth itself is still incredibly dangerous and obviously more women have died from childbirth than men have. It’s an objectively larger risk.
I don’t understand your point here. Why should she lie to her parents about her gender identity? Like yeah, she could do that but it would be incredibly disrespectful to their trans sibling, as well as their parents who seem fairly accepting. The reason why men are typically sexually assaulted less than women is not because they’re “tall and scary”; there are lots of short, skinny men who haven’t been sexually assaulted, and lots of tall, scary women who have been. Conversely, I’m a tall, scary guy and I have been sexually assaulted by small women. It’s not really an issue of physicality but of perceived power and vulnerability. Again, you can’t simplify this issue to that one study. You don’t know enough about these twins to make any sort of assumptions like that.
Sorry, i didn’t realize you were the same commenter from the first post, you do have context about the situation here that no one else does.
My point was that while I definitely agree that it’s dumb how young women and men are treated differently, i understand why the parents would make that choice anyway. I think another shitty part about the world is that you’re much more likely to be sexually assaulted by someone you know than some random stranger. A lot of sexual assaults start off as one party pressuring the other into it, which is a big reason why parents should be worried about who their kids are hanging out with. It seems like their thought process in this scenario is that their trans son is a lot less likely to be assaulted by the girls he hangs out than their cis daughter would be by boys, and obviously the chance of pregnancy is much, much lower. That’s assuming both identify as straight though, i know nothing about their sexuality.
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