(Note: Another TERFs)

(almaratalarabia)
I have been reading more about the almost-complete liberation of Mosul (I cannot express how happy we are here in Iraq even though there are long struggles ahead) and came across several articles like this.

At least nine ISIS jihadis were detained on Wednesday while trying to flee the security checkpoints of the Iraqi forces in Ramadi suburb. They were all dressed as women.

Here is another article about Fallujah.

The argument that men just wouldn't claim to be women to commit crimes isn't based in any fact, but the false idea that toxic masculinity will stop men from committing crimes (as it has never done and will never do). Men in one of the most horrible misogynist groups in the world (literally ISIS, not in the hyperbolic way) are willing to cross-dress to get away with crimes.

I have posted in the past about men also dressing as women to kidnap girls from refugee camps.

I refuse to let men into women's spaces.

(Lil_Z)
When people claim that men would never present as female just to gain some advantage, I think it's because they are unconsciously assuming that being a woman is so degrading, no man would ever stoop to that unless he has some serious, desperate mental issue (and deep down most people do assume trans is a mental issue). 'What man would put himself through the humiliation of appearing as a member of the lowly female sex caste, just for kicks?', they think. (Not realising that for many trans males, the 'humiliation' of being seen as a 'lowly' female is precisely the way they get their kicks).

But as you point out, even the men of ISIS, who expressly believe in the divinely ordained absolute inferiority of female human beings, are not averse to masquerading as women if they can gain some advantage from it. It's just incredible that people can sincerely believe predatory men won't take advantage of gender identity laws. It's like, um... have you ever noticed what predatory men do all over the world, daily?

And that is wonderful news indeed about Mosul, I am so happy for the people of Iraq.