Readers note:
Please be reminded that this quoted post seems to have been flippantly posted to draw a comparison between the over representation of homosexual and bisexual women in prison in the USA and the over representation of male people with trans identities in jail in the UK. It fails at this.
The flippant ‘protect the straight women’ is homophobic.
Those women in US jails are not considered to be of higher risk of committing a sex crime because what this poster has posted has not discussed sex crime. This is a very lazy tactic. And it homophobic because it is weaponising (that flippancy shows this was deliberately done) the situation facing US women who are lesbian and bisexual. It is blatantly attempting to use homophobic trope to present these women as a risk to others.
The two are not comparative though.
Posters on FWR have used the prison statistics in the UK for male people to point out the safeguarding risk profile of male people to state they should not have access to female single sex spaces. And we point to male people with trans identities because their prison representation doesn’t show they are LESS of a risk profile than all other male people.
That risk being the propensity ‘to commit a sex crime’. (Also used for other issues such as the prevalence of misusing gender identity for some perceived gain, such as a better prison experience by being moved to the female estate)
The links posted in the quoted text highlight a horrific inequality that should be address and discussed and solutions found. But they are not ‘gotchas’! Not in the way the poster thinks. The ‘gotcha’ is that extreme trans rights activists tend to be very homophobic in the way they leverage homosexual and bisexual people to defend people with trans identities such as this post quoted.
Those women are not considered to be a risk to female people in prison because of their sexual orientation. Female people with same sex orientation or bisexual have not ever been shown to be a group with a higher rate of committing sex offences than other women, well since legalising homosexual activity if that was applied to lesbians. So again, this was an irrelevant point to make.
And as a group even male homosexual people have not been found to be committing sex crimes at a higher rate than other male people. So again, this was just homophobic in how this poster attempted to leverage this group- male or female.
Female people in general are not considered a high risk to others because female people also lack the many physical advantages male people have over female people. Grip strength and punching power are highly relevant and no male transition removes the fact that a huge majority of these male people have much stronger grip and punch power than 90% of all women. Another reason male people are considered high risk to be put in female single sex spaces. Happy to link studies showing this. Transition in male people does not bring average punch or grip power down to match the average female person’s power statistics.
The over representation is fucking serious and needs to be addressed. Not a jeering ‘Perhaps you have some ideas on how straight women can be protected?’
What is important to note though, is that no evidence was presented that shows male people in the UK with trans identities committing sex crimes at a rate equal to or lower than female people. This US prison statistic was a deflection from that obvious lack of information.
Some posters often posts links to studies and reports without adequately understanding methodology or conclusions or even thoroughly reading what they post. This is a long line of similar irrelevant or misused links