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USA: Almost 50% of Trans Inmates in Federal Custody for Sex Offences

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Delphinium20 · 05/01/2022 00:19

4w.pub/50-of-trans-inmates-in-federal-custody-for-sex-offences/

Amanda Stulman, the Director of the USA branch of Keep Prisons Single Sex obtained these documents on December 14, 2021. I knew she had a Freedom of Information Request out for this (which had attempts by our own ACLU to block it), but I had no idea this information showed worse rates of criminal sex behavior than the general male prison population.

"According to the document, 48.47% of biological male inmates identifying as women are in federal custody for sex offences, compared to just 4.71% of biological females identifying as men, and 11.2% of the non-transgender male population of federal inmates in general."

Please note that these are our country's FEDERAL sex crimes which are particularly heinous (sorry, I stole that adjective from Law and Order). People convicted of lesser sex crimes like prostitution are not convicted of federal sex crimes.

Federal sex crimes include sex crimes against children and minors; sex trafficking; sex crimes committed as part of criminal conspiracies over time; sex crimes involving torture, murder, kidnapping, imprisonment, sadism and federal hate crime aggravators; sex crimes involving the making, distribution or possession of images or footage of children and minors being sexually abused; sex crimes that involve crossing state lines or the USA's borders.

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Linguini · 05/01/2022 01:47

Behind this is the enormous push to record men's crimes as women's crimes. To record them not as transwomen but as women. The idea is to obliterate the distinction completely so we can't ever know the numbers of transwomen in prison let alone what crimes they've committed because they're all just women like the rest.
We're headed right for that.

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Delphinium20 · 05/01/2022 01:07

@TurquoiseBaubles

I've linked this thread on AIBU - I hope you don't mind Delphinium20.
Not at all!
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RoaringtoLangClegintheDark · 05/01/2022 01:06

Either TRAs have to acknowledge that males who identify as trans are just as much a risk to women as other males, therefore women’s concerns are valid OR

TRAs have to acknowledge that predatory males will take advantage of self-ID for their own gains to access vulnerable women, therefore women’s concerns are valid.

100% this. In fact, it would appear that, in the first scenario, males who identify as trans are actually significantly more of a risk, statistically, than other males.

But don’t worry. I’m also 100% sure that TRAs will find a way to make this all the nasty women’s fault, as usual, and to exonerate every single one of those sex offenders, and paint our concerns as a terrible hate crime - and of course even the fact of obtaining the stats will be portrayed as an act of deepest, darkest transphobia.

Maybe there won’t be quite so many people willing to listen to them now though.

IndigoToo · 05/01/2022 00:59

No one born male should ever be in a female prison.
Third spaces are crucial.

HereticFanjo · 05/01/2022 00:46

Such a bloody important piece of information.

TurquoiseBaubles · 05/01/2022 00:43

I've linked this thread on AIBU - I hope you don't mind Delphinium20.

OldCrone · 05/01/2022 00:36

Do we have a UK version with stats too?

There's some analysis of the UK figures here.

fairplayforwomen.com/campaigns/prisons/

Official figures released by the MOJ in 2018 show that half of all known transgender prisoners counted in April 2017 had at least one previous conviction for sex offences.

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Delphinium20 · 05/01/2022 00:34

The US data is newly available. Sorry, I don't have UK data.

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NotBadConsidering · 05/01/2022 00:34

@TurquoiseBaubles

That's interesting. So either

(1) transwomen are more likely to be sexual offenders than men; or
(2) men who are sexual offenders are claiming to be trans.

One has to be true.

Yes, I’ve made a similar point.

Either TRAs have to acknowledge that males who identify as trans are just as much a risk to women as other males, therefore women’s concerns are valid OR

TRAs have to acknowledge that predatory males will take advantage of self-ID for their own gains to access vulnerable women, therefore women’s concerns are valid.

WandaWomblesaurus73 · 05/01/2022 00:26

We are discussing male sexual offenders in womens prisons in AIBU at the moment. Do we have a UK version with stats too?

nocoolnamesleft · 05/01/2022 00:24

But that would never happen.

TurquoiseBaubles · 05/01/2022 00:22

That's interesting. So either

(1) transwomen are more likely to be sexual offenders than men; or
(2) men who are sexual offenders are claiming to be trans.

One has to be true.

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