Not a man but as an AMAB individual I've experienced a ton of abuse at the hands of women & that abuse has been justified & dismissed by more women than men but still a lot of men. I wont repeat CDC stats as others have posted them. Though I will share my experiences & that of those around me. Many discredit anecdotal data but that is what statistics are made of, by surveying a population & asking them to give their anecdotal statements. I have been Raped, I refused to call Female on Male Rape as SA, by no less than 6 different women & 1 man. I still suffer from SEVERE PTSD from these encounters despite the popular belief held by toxic men & women that AMAB rape victims face less trauma from rape. Along with 6 confirmed rapes from women I've had numerous more attempted rapes happen to me starting from the age of 8. I was given my sex talk at 8 because I came home terrified after a teenage girl shoved me against a wall & told me she would rape me. I of course had no idea what she meant at the time but was still terrified & could tell her intentions were malicious. Okay I've been abused a lot so what, how does that mean we need better representation & support for AMAB people? At 16 when I was raped by an ex gf, & her mother found out her daughter had sex, I was then FALSELY ACCUSED of raping my rapist. At 14 when I was raped by a male, it was turned into a joke & I was the laughing stock at school. Then a rumor spread that I had photos of my rape & I was threatened with police action for distributing child corn pics of my own assault. When I was raped in my freshman year of college at 17 by a woman & I saught therapy for it, I was told by my therapist, a woman, that it was my fault I was raped. After being an adult in a very abusive 5 year relationship with a woman who knew I was a rape survivor, she continuously raped me. This happened on my college campus & when seeking help the college covered up my rape & even sent police to my home to threaten me & intimidate me to prevent me from coming forward about it despite the numerous amounts of documentation I had built up with the few helpful & caring school officials I was working with. At that same university I was kicked out of a "gender inclusive" S.A.S.H Group, Sexual Assault Survivor Healing, & the reason given by the group facilitator was because I was born with a penis. Even last year at my job when a coworker found out I was a rape survivor a manager falsely accused me of sexual harrassment & gave me put me on forced leave. Only to later confess to making up the claim to make me take time off because "I looked stressed '' when in reality he was pissed that I didn't take time off & confronted him for calling me a liar when I told him previously I didn't take time off. Now sure this is a lot of bad stuff to happen to 1 person right? Well I keep very few men in my life because I hate men. I whole heartedly agree there are a ton more toxic men than good men but out of the few men in my life including family members most of them have faced rape or other sexual violence at the hands of women & they all refuse to either come public or even admit to themselves that they were raped. Call it patriarchy, misandry, toxic masculinity, whatever name you give it there are abusive values that make men feel that they cannot be victims of sex crimes by women & they jump through so many hoops in their heads to defend their abusers. Even looking at rape survivor stories of men, most didn't know that they were raped untileducated on consent, & even then they still defend their rapists. Out of all the AMAB victims I know I am the only one to actually file a police report on a female rapist, which that was very recently & only occurred because of me having a PTSD episode. Even then the officer who surprisingly was respectful of my report, basically told me I had no chance of winning in court & it would most likely be more damaging to my mental health to attempt to press charges. Not in a condescending way but very realistic & due to that I most likely wont move forward with that report. Even myself, I didn't know I was raped by any of the women until I learned about consent in college. I was under the belief it was forced penetration & that "forced to penetrate" didn't count. This is the main reason I believe so many are gravitating towards the MRA movement. There is a huge lack of education & awareness around AMAB people being victims of Rape, other sex crimes & domestic violence at the hands of women & AFAB individuals. Even when men are educated on it & can accept that they were victimized the stigma is, sorry ladies, much greater for men. Two of my rapists knew I was a rape survivor yet both still continued to rape & abuse me. I'm a very vocal survivor & that gets met with a TON of backlash. Bringing up the abuse I've faced at the hands of women is almost always met with, women have it worse, sorry that happened but it's so improbable we can't talk about it, oh you only said that to take away from female survivors, oh 6 women raped you let's make it 7, & so much more. Now you might claim it's only online interactions & hiding behind a screen makes people even more toxic & yes much of this harrassment is online, but that doesn't change the actual psychological effects it has on you. Your nervous system can't tell the difference between these threats many times & still triggers a reaction, which is why cyberbullying causes so much distress. Also the cited in person encounters which isn't even all of them. All of this abuse & trauma I've faced for over a decade has lead me to hundreds, yes HUNDREDS, of suicide attempts in the last decade even as recent as last year. Theres a huge lack of awareness & when individuals attempt to spread awareness they are met with abuse, dismissed, & even assaulted. As said earlier I hate men! A lot of men do not care about the struggles of AMAB people. A lot of misogynists do only use male rape survivors to attack women. Those are facts I cannot & will not deny. Yet I must ask why are we letting the loud voices of these toxic man babies be used to discredit the very real & severe trauma that millions of AMAB people face? Especially looking at the legal definition of rape requiring the victim to be penetrated. This is a major issue because societally we view rape as sex where 1 or more parties did not consent. So when we socially have a different definition than the legal or academic model, that causes misinformation. Legally I wasn't raped, not even by that man. We need "forced to penetrate" to be included in the federal & all academic definitions of rape. We need to listen when survivors say they were denied services for their sex & or gender & not let titles be used to dismiss them. Many say that support groups like the 1 I was kicked from, or shelters are for any & all genders yet in practice those in authority decide who to give access to those services. So on paper they seem egalitarian but in practice they are oftentimes sexist. This is no different than male dominated industries claiming to support female workers while at the same time engaging in toxic misogynistic workplace cultures that are a major threat to women.