I haven't see another thread on this GenderHeretics piece written by an American HCP, social worker and human rights activist who's worked with sex offenders.
In it she details her professional and personal experience, and her gradual disillusion with libfem beliefs. It's long (12,000 words) but my God she covers some ground.
"...I was sent to work as a therapist at an institution for involuntarily committed sex offenders. These are the guys whose crimes are so bad that even after they’ve served their prison sentences, they are deemed too dangerous to release to the public, so they are sent to our institution indefinitely, or until a judge deems them rehabilitated and orders them released...
Listening to them in their group and individual sessions was where I started to break from my libfem roots... One day I asked, naively, “What about female sex offenders, do we treat them?”
My boss chuckled.
“It’s not that they don’t exist, but they’re so rare. And they’d rarely if ever need this type of treatment. It’s usually an entirely different approach for an entirely different cause…” and he schooled me on why I was a shit feminist, without saying as much. I had a lot to learn away from the “but not all men,” and the “women do it too” circles that were pervasive even in the left. Reality wasn’t what some of my allies were guilt tripping me into believing.
So then I asked, “What about trans women?” At this point, still fully believing the “some people are born in the wrong body” line.
Boss paused again. “We have trans women, and we have males with AGP. We keep them in another wing.” Cool. Makes sense.
“Wait, what is AGP?”
That lesson I received that day was… another eye opener. AGP (autogynephilia) was a new but shocking concept. I knew of cross dressers, but this was a whole other level from what I’d imagined... These males were on female hormones, wore female attire, and put on makeup. But they were still male and they were still capable of being violent rapists as they had many times in their past. To think of putting them in female prisons or shelters or homes was so outrageous to me that I couldn’t imagine anyone would ever even suggest something so absurd. Little did I know, such absurd things would not only be requested, but demanded within a couple of years by the people marching beside me for social justice in other areas.
She talks about porn, about trans widows and trans kids. There are so many disturbing elements to this article, but I'll stop quoting now.