I would not be opposed to forcing men who have raped women to undergo a sex-change operation, complete with hormones, castration, the full nine yards.
I don't know what I would do with men who have raped other men (which I assume can happen), or women who have raped other women (which I believe has been performed with various and sundry instruments)--neither of which crime, no matter how despicable, would ever result in pregnancy.
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"I would not be opposed to forcing men who have raped women to undergo a sex-change operation, complete with hormones, castration, the full nine yards."
I can sympathize with the abstract desire for poetic justice, but this is a case in which additional wrongs won't right anything. I think he is trying to have the punishment fit the crime by creating in the perpetrator the status of his victims -- indeed, as if just being a woman were a punishment (which I suppose it would be, for a man who wants to remain a man, albeit a cruel and most definitely unusual one).
This idea is flawed as hell, though there is a part of me that enjoys the ironic aspects of it.
Brilliant idea there Declineto! Now we'll have hundreds of emotionally damaged transexuals with a history of sexual offences wandering our streets! Whatever happened to, you know,putting people in jail where they can't hurt anyone (aside from other, like-minded individuals).
>>However, the REAL victimhood here is not in one's gender, but in being on the receiving end of a brutal and humiliating assault. So unless he advocates having these transgendered rapists raped themselves, I don't think he's quite got it -- and I don't think that's such a good road to take anyway, to put it as mildly as possible.<<
"I would not be opposed to forcing men who have raped women to undergo a sex-change operation"
Forgive me for thinking more than one step ahead, but ... To What End?
What does the risk of pregnancy have to do with anything else? Sure, that is one more traumatizing result of rape, but it's still just as much a rape if pregnancy does not follow. Plus, rape doesn't have to be penetration, it's sex with someone who haven't consented to it.
I would very much oppose the forcing of men to become women, or of women to become men. It's just as bad as to prohibit a transgender person from go through a sex-change operation. Castration is not necessarily necessary for a sex change.
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