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In 2011, when I was fourteen, I was outed as trans by someone that I thought was my best friend. As a result, three of my classmates raped me with an object on school grounds before classes began one morning. I reported it to the principal. Her response was “Well, that’s what happens. What have we learned?”, basically saying that me being trans meant that I should have expected to be raped and that I’d deserved it.

(Previously, one of the rapists had taken a nude photo of me while I was changing and uploaded it to MySpace. I had also reported this to the principal, and she’d told me I was “creating problems where there are none”. MySpace took it down at least, so I guess Tom cared more about my safety than the adult whose literal job was to protect kids.)

I was very, very quickly expelled from the school after the rape. I’m not sure what the official “reason” given was, my parents didn’t tell me. They also didn’t fight it, considering what had happened. I had to be homeschooled until graduation.

I became selectively mute after this, a problem that remains to this day. The rapists never got punished for what they did to me. The local PD (in Texas) never followed up on the report my parents made.

Sad that nothing’s changed about how schools handle sexual abuse in the almost-fifteen-years that have passed since then.

For years [decades even] I've sought (inadequately) to avoid cameras, aware (in part from my art and special effects aptitude and education) this sort of thing and more, were coming. And now it's here. And maybe now more mice will realise, in the trap, that it's a trap. :/ Wasn't an easy thing to try to warn people about, when so many were incapable of conceiving of the threat. Let alone to get sufficient awareness in sufficient people to affect good change to avert such. Though, mostly I'd only considered the threat from government & corporations. Here now it's in the hands of almost anyone. And far faster and easier. What "fun". :-|

The headline is misleading. She was expelled because she was so frustrated by the incompetence of the administration and the police that she took matters into her own hands and attacked someone. I think it's justified, but the headline is misleading.

The same story could be told with "school and police fail woman being attacked" but since that happens every day, it's not as punchy.

I am sure some people will interpret this as me trying to justify her being expelled or something but those people can fuck right off.

This problem won't stop until law enforcement starts treating deepfakes of minors as possession of child pornography with all the legal ramifications that come with it. Young boys need to understand that their actions have consequences.

In the meantime, no one under 18 should be on social media. I wish AI, deepfakes or in general, could just be illegal, but laws aren't catching up and people are being victimized.

the images were shared on Snapchat, an app that deletes messages seconds after they’re viewed, and the adults couldn’t find them

If the Sheriff couldn't get the images, it's because he didn't bother to. It's a well known fact that Snapchat retains copies of all messages

I know everyone's justifiably outraged over this, but this just makes my heart hurt.

Imagine being a 13-yr-old girl being terrorized by CP of yourself being spread around the entire school and the adults that are meant to protect you from such repulsive crimes just shrugging their shoulders.

It's horrifying.

Shoulda let ol Doc Millsap get aholda dem boys