Rix I am also a woman who has been raped/sexually abused by both men and women. All sex abuse crimes are estimated to be under reported and very much under prosecuted. Male rape even more under reported, and male or female victimised by a female even more under reported. There are very very few studies on the stats of female offenders. Making daughters safe again (an excellent website for hundreds of reasons) has links to the studies there are (which focus on child sex abuse, and suggest female offenders make up more than the 'known' 2% iirc). Ime rape by my mother was much much worse than all of the other rapes by males (that she facilitated and profited from and got off on) but there are a number of reasons behind that, as is no doubt obvious. The legal definition of rape is penile penetration, which accounts for the risk of pregnancy, stid/is and the further truama that incurs. That sexual assault (object or digital rape) doesn't carry the same weight is not acceptable, but that's somewhat a side issue. Rape is an emotive word, it carries more weight than sexual assault somehow, and I say I was raped by my mother but I accept legally it isn't termed that.
However, while it's likely female sex offenders are more common than reported it's still unlikely that women offend on anywhere near the same scale as men. Gender is a hiarchy imposed by the patriarchy, if us lowly women made up a similar, or larger, proportion of sex offenders as men do the patriarchy would love to shout about us dirty, sick, perverted women who pose such a threat to them. They would love to lay the blame for sex offenses at our door or to argue that it's not a gendered problem and women pose an equal risk and that womens aid etc are discrimatory to men etc and that an equal proportion of that funding needs put back into the males pot.
I know the argument against this, that men and women offended against by females feel so ashamed they can't speak up etc but money and power are greater motivators and the patriarchy would love to gain more of that if there was actual evidence to prove female sex offenders are on an equal scale to males.
I get how frustrating it is that people don't realise the scale of female offenders, or the damage (and I hope posters visit making daughters safe again to gather some insight) but while there are more women sexually targeting victims than generally acknowledged it just doesn't make sense that it is on the same scale as male offenders.
Either way any victim should be free to chose the SEX of the doctor treating them where ever possible. Their needs (male or female victim) trump the needs/wants of the doctor.
As it happens i prefer female doctors for smears etc but male therapist and I much prefered the one male midwife I had. I respect other people's choice also. The proposed law takes that choice away from all of us. And it scares me. Really really scares me.
Re the naked kid picture, I can't put my finger on it exactly but there's something I'm finding triggering in similarity to pro-paedophilia organisations literature. (So this is why my train of thought maybe off-sorry if that's the case and this reads muddled).