Be careful with this. In the US, the right to self defense is not universal. It’s entirely dependent on the demographic characteristics of the people involved.
Cishet white male: unrestricted right to self-defense.
Cishet white female: provisional right to self-defense, usually if facing threat or murder, rape, or assault by a stranger. (If you know your attacker, self-defense does not apply.)
Everyone else: no right to self-defense exists. You will be prosecuted for assault or murder after unambiguous cases of self-defense. The one thing the United States will never accept is minority groups using lethal violence to protect themselves. Even most Democrats would be appalled by this. Deep down, most liberals feel minorities are supposed to be protected by benevolent white people; they’re not supposed to defend themselves.
It illustrates the flaw with “better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.”
Spoiler tag for hard truths you’re probably better not knowing:
spoiler
Here’s how things will work for a trans woman who exercises armed self-defense in a state like Wyoming:
Regardless of the circumstances of the case, she will be arrested and charged with assault or murder.
When arrested, she will be taken to a male prison, regardless of whether she has male or female anatomy.
At her trial, half the jurors will want to convict her simply for being trans. Her claim to self-defense will fail, and she will be convicted.
While in prison, the guards will literally use her as a reward for male inmates. She will be moved around from cell to cell, used as a tool of positive discipline to keep the male inmates in line. A male prisoner agrees to serve as an informant? Let him have the trans woman for a few nights as a reward. A male prisoner normally acts out, but has been on good behavior? Lock her up with him and let him rape her for a few days as a reward. The guards literally use trans women as a currency to reward male prisoners. This is not an uncommon practice.
When a trans woman is sentenced to prison, she is being sentenced to daily rape and sexual assault.
You sure it’s better to be judged by twelve than carried by six?
Apologies. I just consider it polite to search first for a definition before asking other people to explain it. This isn’t an obscure bit of terminology. That wikipedia article would have popped right at the top of search results if you had tried searching.
Yeppers. Just saw a court case where a woman shattered the arm of a teenage boy trying to forcefully enter her home. The parents took her to court, saying she used excessive force on their would-be intruder son.
They won because the boy wasn’t fully inside her home yet… The woman had to pay his medical bills.
Be careful with this. In the US, the right to self defense is not universal. It’s entirely dependent on the demographic characteristics of the people involved.
Cishet white male: unrestricted right to self-defense.
Cishet white female: provisional right to self-defense, usually if facing threat or murder, rape, or assault by a stranger. (If you know your attacker, self-defense does not apply.)
Everyone else: no right to self-defense exists. You will be prosecuted for assault or murder after unambiguous cases of self-defense. The one thing the United States will never accept is minority groups using lethal violence to protect themselves. Even most Democrats would be appalled by this. Deep down, most liberals feel minorities are supposed to be protected by benevolent white people; they’re not supposed to defend themselves.
Better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.
Tell that to the trans woman being v-coded.
There are some fates in this world worse than death.
I have no idea what “v-coded” means.
You could try searching. But I’ll hold your hand.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-coding
It illustrates the flaw with “better to be judged by twelve than carried by six.”
Spoiler tag for hard truths you’re probably better not knowing:
spoiler
Here’s how things will work for a trans woman who exercises armed self-defense in a state like Wyoming:
Regardless of the circumstances of the case, she will be arrested and charged with assault or murder.
When arrested, she will be taken to a male prison, regardless of whether she has male or female anatomy.
At her trial, half the jurors will want to convict her simply for being trans. Her claim to self-defense will fail, and she will be convicted.
While in prison, the guards will literally use her as a reward for male inmates. She will be moved around from cell to cell, used as a tool of positive discipline to keep the male inmates in line. A male prisoner agrees to serve as an informant? Let him have the trans woman for a few nights as a reward. A male prisoner normally acts out, but has been on good behavior? Lock her up with him and let him rape her for a few days as a reward. The guards literally use trans women as a currency to reward male prisoners. This is not an uncommon practice.
When a trans woman is sentenced to prison, she is being sentenced to daily rape and sexual assault.
You sure it’s better to be judged by twelve than carried by six?
You could try realizing that your jargon is not universal (even in your own country!) and not be a vicious twit.
But that isn’t likely at all, so I’ll just cut this off at the knees right here.
Apologies. I just consider it polite to search first for a definition before asking other people to explain it. This isn’t an obscure bit of terminology. That wikipedia article would have popped right at the top of search results if you had tried searching.
Yeppers. Just saw a court case where a woman shattered the arm of a teenage boy trying to forcefully enter her home. The parents took her to court, saying she used excessive force on their would-be intruder son.
They won because the boy wasn’t fully inside her home yet… The woman had to pay his medical bills.
I’m thinking of this case here. It’s not the first such case involving trans people.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/06/us/transgender-gun-rights-wyoming.html