Men’s definition of ‘sexual assault’ is astounding

I can’t believe how prominent it is for men to claim that if a trans woman doesn’t immediately disclose she’s trans, that the women is committing some kind of sexual assault even if it’s the man who initiates any romantic action. A man can kiss a woman, that woman can respond with ‘oh by the way before this goes any further I’m trans’ and SO MANY men think that’s sexual assault.

This isn’t what women fought for when we started speaking out about the horrors and normalisation of sexual assault. A man having a crisis because he found a trans woman attractive and made a move before she disclosed her identity is NOT sexual assault. All women have to put up with some level of sexual assault in their personal and professional lives and THIS is what men think it feels like ?? How could they miss the point so completely ?

It just made me hurt as I realised this today. So many brave women coming forward about sexual assault to try and made the world a better place and THIS is what some men decide to do with it ? Women deserve so much better.