@mudgetastic
Well yes obviously there is no group with no crime
Unfortunately we are repeatedly told that we have nothing to fear from transwomen
Yet we repeatedly see that there is no evidence at all that transwomen have a different offending profile to men
As shown by the thread
Clearly we have as much to fear from transwomen as men
Which implies that there is no reason to treat men differently to transwomen
Really poor logic.
I mean for anyone to say you have' nothing to fear' from one thing or another, is just commonplace language and semantics over statistical accuracy...
I could say you have little to fear from air travel. (That is more accurate than nothing to fear)
I would broadly be right, planes are apparently the safest way to travel.
But of course you could still get on a flight that would kill you.
Yet we repeatedly see that there is no evidence at all that transwomen have a different offending profile to men
What is the "repeatedly" that you refer to? It makes it sound like you have several studies to hand - can you list them please?
Did you see the response from the lead author of the one study that is frequently cited to support what you are referring to?:
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3043071/
Cecilia Djehne. In the interview, she notes that in
fact:
“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.”
Take you logic and let apply it to lesbians