Is this statement true

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iMum · 22/11/2018 12:01

A man living as a woman is no less likely to sexually offend than a man living as a man

(Apart from the obvious wtf even is living as a woman)

Collective MN wisdom Are there stats available that you may have seen or can link to because this is very much addling my mind atm.

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arranfan · 22/11/2018 12:11

fairplayforwomen.com/violence/

The search function here is shocking so it's almost impossible to identify the threads and posts where statistics have been posted but the comparison on FPFW's link is helpful with the analysis.

deepwatersolo · 22/11/2018 12:10

The lack of data is a huge problem. There is this one Swedish study that found that fully transitioned male to female transsexuals showed the same criminality patterns and violent criminality patterns as men within the margin of error. (transitioned female to male transsexuals interestingly were more criminal than women.) But the study did not look at sexual offences specifically.

The problem we currently face are quite different though, considering that increasingly MtF transpeople are autogynephiles who may not even want an operation. There we only have this one number that, what, >40% (?) of 'transwomen' in prison were there for a sexual offence, which is double the rate than that of men in prison. From that I would conclude they are probably (at least) as likely to sexually offend as men. But these numbers obviously cannot substitute a meaningful, controlled scientific study with thorough statistical analysis.

EmpressAdultHumanFemale · 22/11/2018 12:06

Off the top of my head there's this: fairplayforwomen.com/transgender-prisoners/

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