So before going to bed:

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This post, I think, is one of the most important that has been written lately.

C. L. Minou writes We Are the Dead: Sex, Assault, and Trans Women. Trigger warning, descriptions of sexual abuse.

But as the Kimberly Nixon case showed, even woman-positive organizations can be no haven for trans women, since those groups can, in Canada at least, refuse to hire a qualified rape counselor simply because she looked like a man in their eyes. Presumably they would do the same thing to a trans woman who had been the victim of rape or sexual assault (or domestic violence, as Nixon herself had been.) Even though a trans woman, like many other women who have been assaulted, might long for an all-female environment to aid her recovery, there is no guarantee that she’ll be accepted there. And often no guarantee that anyone else will have her. Even in large cities, finding a trans-positive or even trans-accepting victim center is likely to be impossible. There is nowhere to turn for many trans victims of rape or assault, which is why the sexual assault numbers for trans women–high though they may be–are almost certainly drastically underreported.

Also, something to say is how, even in the bloggosphere, the reactions to abuse of cis women by authorities is so very different to the reactions from outsiders to abuse of trans women by authorities. Compare this case to any case of trans women being victims of police harassment when reporting their rape and how the public responded. (Not to say Hannah's case didn't have their dose of misogynist bastards commenting, of course, but Hannah didn't even experience what Josephine Perez experienced. Had Perez been cis, people would be outraged all over the blogosphere.)