🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)18h ago

I've never met a femme-presenting¹ person who didn't have a sexual harassment/assault story.

Most have one from within the past week.

My most recent harassment was yesterday (but I haven't really left the house yet today, so there's still time).

My first sexual assault was at ~13².

¹ InB4 some guy hops in to remind us all that men get SA'd too
² that I remember

Show threadAlexa Devreux-Swift18h ago

@alice

Every single woman, cis or trans, and femme presenting person I know has been a victim of SA without exception. And most have their first assault as a child or early teens.

Show threadb18h ago
@alexadeswift @alice huh, that's interesting, I'm a trans woman and i don't think I've experienced sexual assault ? like of course there's the chance that there's something i'm not remembering (yay CPTSD) but i'm pretty sure i haven't. i have had random men on the street or in cars catcall me a few times but that seems to me like harassment not assault
Show threadAlexa Devreux-Swift18h ago

@b

If you felt fear, it was assault.

@alice

Show threadb18h ago
@alexadeswift @alice wait, so what counts as "just" harassment then? is there ever harassment that doesn't make someone feel fear? should i not be thinking of these as different? /gen
Show threadAlexa Devreux-Swift

@b

Under British law, if someone takes any action towards you which causes you to feel fear, that is common assault. If there is a sexual element to it then that is aggravated.

Under the Harrassment Act anything that would not constitute assault is harrassment, but you need at least three recorded incidents in the Log.

@alice

Apr 7 at 7:19pmWeb