Gender Identity Specialists warn of “ever increasing tide” of Transwoman Sex Offenders

It's a quote from the document itself, to be fair to the OP:

"The converse is the ever-increasing tide of referrals of patients in prison serving long or indeterminate sentences for serious sexual offences. These vastly outnumber the number of prisoners incarcerated for more ordinary, non-sexual, offences. It has been rather na??vely suggested that nobody would seek to pretend transsexual status in prison if this were not actually the case. There are, to those of us who actually interview the prisoners, in fact very many reasons why people might pretend this.

These vary from the opportunity to have trips out of prison through to a desire for a transfer to the female estate (to the same prison as a co-defendant) through to the idea that a parole board will perceive somebody who is female as being less dangerous through to a [false] belief that hormone treatment will actually render one less dangerous through to wanting a special or protected status within the prison system and even (in one very well evidenced case that a highly concerned Prison Governor brought particularly to my attention) a plethora of prison intelligence information suggesting that the driving force was a desire to make subsequent sexual offending very much easier, females being generally perceived as low risk in this regard. I am sure that the Governor concerned would be happy to talk about this."

"the transgender movement"

TiggyD wrote - "It's a movement rather than a lot of people with a condition?"

Perhaps you are confusing the transgender movement, also known as transgenderism, with people who are transsexual?

It's an easy mistake to make because people often assume transgender is exclusively about transsexual people and that the terms are synonymous. This is no longer the case, although between about 1950 and 1995 the terms would have been accurately interchangeable.

Of course transgenderism is a movement. It is deeply political. That doesn't mean that every transgender person is involved in the movement, just as not every woman is involved in feminism. And there are plenty of people who are involved in transgenderism or who bolster the movement who are not trans themselves.

Transgenderism is a men's rights movement TiggyD. It is also an anti woman, particularly anti lesbian movement.

Transgenderism is also a movement of medical experimentation and a corrective movement which deals with people who are noncompliant with heteronormative gendered society.

Comparing transgenderism to eczema shows how little you understand of the phenomenon.

I think it was always obvious that a certain type of man would see opportunities with this.

This is one of the main reasons that many women have problems with the idea that anyone who says they are a woman is a woman and must be allowed to access all "female only" situations. Women and girls know that men with bad or pervy intentions want to access them and their spaces, the questions have always been around, how can we protect ourselves from the "bad guys" in all of this? The push to include people with fully functioning male genitals and people who identify as female part-time in the category and allow them access is problematical for lots of women and girls. At the moment we are afforded protection from perves to a large extent by keeping all males out. This gives those males an "in", and one that if they get challenged on they have the weight of the law behind them.

And sure maybe it doesn't happen very often, but it is happening more, and as men with bad intentions twig on to this I would be very surprised if it doesn't increase and this puts women and girls at risk, how can it not. A pervy man can now gain access to areas that he would have had trouble accessing before. And we know, as women, that there are a worryingly large number of pervy men out there.

...about the transgender movement

It's a movement rather than a lot of people with a condition? That must mean I'm also in the Eczema movement. Who'da thought it.

From the article you link to: "Testimony admitted by the British Association of Gender Identity Specialists to the Transgender Equality Inquiry in the UK Parliament took a surprise turn when members sounded the alarm over what they warned is an "ever increasing tide?? of transwoman criminal sex offenders. They outline how sex-offending transwomen whom they describe as ??pretend transsexuals?? adopt a transgender identity for various nefarious purposes, often involving increased access to vulnerable women and child victims.

ever increasing tide I'm sure the term "tide" was condemned when applied to refugees because it was dehumanising.

Criminals pretending to be trans to get a perceived easier life? You just can't trust criminals can you? 'Some people claiming to be trans in prison are not really trans' is very different to 'all people claiming to be trans in prison are not really trans'. If criminals are pretending to be something they're not it's not the problem of the group they're pretending to be from. If they were pretending to be Jewish they would not be described as 'sex offending Jews', so why are people who are not trans described as " sex-offending transwomen"?