I am obviously a woman, if you cared to look at my username.
Wowsers, you really don't understand how stats work do you? I sincerely hope you are arent involved in anything to do with finance or numbers! :-)
You are suggesting that we preclude ALL transgender people from working with children simply because they are trans? Regardless of any screening or safeguarding measures that actually keep them safe from harm.
Of the individuals found guilty of sexual offenses against children in 23/24, around 98.8% (7166) were male and 1.2% (83) were female.
https://www.csacentre.org.uk/app/uploads/2025/03/Child-sexual-abuse-in-2023-24-Trends-in-official-data.pdf
In 2024, only 295 prisoners in the whole of the UK prisoner population identified as transgender.
Even if ALL of them were biologically male and convicted of child sexual offences (and they aren't and weren't) that still represents only 4% of ALL individuals found guilty of sexual offences against children.
In reality it's more like 1.5% of all those convicted of a sexual offence against children, who identify as trans women.
So statistically speaking the prevalence of a trans women found guilty of committing sexual offences against a child was only slightly higher than biological women (1.2%).
Furthermore the majority of these transgender prisoners were male at the point of committing the crime/prosecution and have only transitioned to trans women at conviction/during imprisonment. They would NOT have been perceived as women by their victims. So excluding trans women from working with children isn't going to help because they aren't identifiable as trans women when they commit the crime! We'd need to exclude all men too, and posters have already agreed that only biological women taking these roles is nonsense. I mean where would we stop? No male pediatricians? No male gynaecologists? No male teachers?
Convicted individuals will NEVER be able to work with children or vulnerable adults on release as sexual offences are never "spent" and will always be disclosed on DBS checks.
Given that the whole transgender population of the UK in 2021 census was reported to be only 0.54% of the population, the number of transgender prisoners actually convicted of any sexual offence represents only 0.0002% of the entire population, compared to 0.0114% of men, it really is important to put the perceived risk into perspective.
Whilst any sexual offence against children (or indeed anyone) is one too many, the evidence shows that the real risk of sexual abuse to children isn't from trans women.
Awful people of all genders and backgrounds are capable of doing awful things, and the "sensational ones" committed by "outsiders" e.g. trans women,.ethnic minorities/non British men always make the headlines, by and large its white British men who are the perpetrators of sexual offences against children in the UK.
Surely as women, after years of oppression, we should be joining forces with the marginalised and oppressed trans community to stop all sexual violence and abuse against all women and children,.from anyone, not "punching down" on trans women in a misguided attempt to keep ourselves and our children safe from what by and large is predatory men.
Because predatory men are STILL overwhelmingly the men we have always recognised them to be - they really aren't masquerading as trans women to commit these crimes, they dont need to.
Because whilst we are so busy trying to avoid a potential rogue zebra in the stampede, we are missing the very obvious danger that is the herds of horses bearing down on us.
We must not lose sight that 1000s of children every year are sexually abused in their own homes by male family members and friends, and so many more offences are never reported let alone convictions secured. Come on people, use your critical thinking.
You don't have to agree with others ideology or self belief to recognise the real dangers.