@ArabellaScott
Any evidence that transwomen are any less likely to commit sexual or violent offending than any other male?
Male violence remains male violence.
Women can't 'identify' out of it, unfortunately. And the gender identity of the person attacking them means little: men are larger, stronger, and an attack by a male can also carry the danger of unwanted pregnancy.
I'm not scared of lesbians, is the root of it. I am scared of males.
Trans women aren't male, but if you want evidence, try this study:
journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0016885
And here you can see the lead scientist, Cecilia Dhejne, discussing the results:
www.transadvocate.com/fact-check-study-shows-transition-makes-trans-people-suicidal_n_15483.htm
Dhejne: The individual in the image who is making claims about trans criminality, specifically rape likelihood, is misrepresenting the study findings. The study as a whole covers the period between 1973 and 2003. If one divides the cohort into two groups, 1973 to 1988 and 1989 to 2003, one observes that for the latter group (1989 – 2003), differences in mortality, suicide attempts, and crime disappear. This means that for the 1989 to 2003 group, we did not find a male pattern of criminality.
As to the criminality metric itself, we were measuring and comparing the total number of convictions, not conviction type. We were not saying that cisgender males are convicted of crimes associated with marginalization and poverty. We didn’t control for that and we were certainly not saying that we found that trans women were a rape risk. What we were saying was that for the 1973 to 1988 cohort group and the cisgender male group, both experienced similar rates of convictions. As I said, this pattern is not observed in the 1989 to 2003 cohort group.
The difference we observed between the 1989 to 2003 cohort and the control group is that the trans cohort group accessed more mental health care, which is appropriate given the level of ongoing discrimination the group faces. What the data tells us is that things are getting measurably better and the issues we found affecting the 1973 to 1988 cohort group likely reflects a time when trans health and psychological care was less effective and social stigma was far worse.
Also, you might want to read this with regards to trans prisoners:
www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-42221629
The 125 transgender prisoners counted in the survey are more likely to be serving longer sentences.
That's because prisoners serving shorter sentences are less likely to have a case conference - so are less likely to be counted.
The MoJ explained that prisoners serving long sentences are more likely to be serving time for sexual offences than those on shorter sentences.
Trans prisoners on shorter sentences - who won't be in the survey - are less likely to be sex offenders.
That means that it's unlikely that as many as half of all transgender prisoners have been convicted of a sexual offence - once you take into account those trans prisoners who weren't surveyed.