Absolutely !
And it is important to understand what has happened.
A group of male people are now considered by some as exempt from being treated the same as all the other male people in the UK for safeguarding purposes.
This has been a massive failure because we know historically no group of male people should be treated as being exempt. The groups of Catholic Church clergy, scouts and teachers are three such groups.
The way this has been done is that some people hold the belief that some people can change sex. Or, that a male person who declares they are a ‘woman’ (some declare they are 5 year old girls too when they are adult males) becomes ‘not male’ for safeguarding risk assessment.
This is not based on any factual or scientific basis at all. This is purely philosophical belief. At best based on pseudoscience such as post modernist theory. At worst, well I would be deleted for saying.
No evidence. Yet we have some posters who will declare this belief is a factual change. And tell us they have evidence to back it up. That evidence never comes. Because it is based in that post modernist theory or queer theory.
For instance, there is absolutely no evidence that there is a ‘female brain’. But you will see that said so often. No. No female brains. Just brains that are structured to fit within a male skull and that has stronger brain fibres than brains in female skulls. The brain reacts to certain hormones to make particular changes. But that is not a ‘female brain’.
And so then for safeguarding the relevance is, all male people should be treated as male people. No exceptions. No group of male people have a lower risk of committing sex or violent crime than other male people.
More importantly, no male person at any stage of transition has a risk of committing sex or violent crime at the same or lower level than a FEMALE person. Their pattern for crime remains that of a male person.
But this is inconvenient to some people and they would like readers of this thread to not know this.