Some truths, one lie
Useful stats from Samantha Zepeda
200 million women live with female genital mutilation.
650 million women alive today were forced into marriage as a child.
70% of women experience sex based violence.
71% of trafficking victims are women
75% of those are trafficked for sexual slavery
Violence against women costs the USA $500 billion annually
Half of all women will experience sexual violence in developed counties
A woman is raped every 15 minutes
Women cannot vote in 12 countries
In the USA:
1 in 3 women experience domestic violence
1 in 10 women are raped by an intimate partner
20k calls to domestic violence hotlines a day 19% of domestic violence involves a weapon
If a firearm is present, the rate of domestic violence homicide increases by 500%
Half the world still denies women property ownership
82% of children molested are female
Females age 16-19 are 4 times more likely to experience rape
830 women die every day due to preventable pregnancy related causes
Period poverty
Beauty industry standards
Sexism
Economic Inequality
Campaign to normalize misogyny
Reproductive rights
3.82 billion women experience the above. 1.4 million adults identify as trans.
"Trans rights are human rights" is used to insinuate women opposed to losing their sex based rights are egregiously violating the rights of trans people. This is a lie. Access to female only spaces is not a human right. They exist because of the above.
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