'To say that some men rape and sexually assault women and girls is an uncontroversial fact'

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Kathleen Stock has written an excellent blog reflecting on the alleged rape in Mitcham and how best to protect women and girls from dangerous men:

'Other than teaching women self-protection, a second thing a society can do to reduce rape and sexual assault is to encourage safeguarding social norms to get embedded, so that it becomes unusual and indeed remarkable for men to be in public areas where women and girls undress or sleep.'

kathleenstock.com/noticing-reality/

The original story:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8910225/Pictured-Man-hunted-police-rape-attack-teenage-girl-South-London.html

And the percentage of the male population who have decided to assert that they are female is?

More importantly (as the FPFW article demonstrates) there are only 100 women in the prison population convicted of sex crimes so a tiny percentage of the overall female population compared to nearly 20% of men and nearly half of transwomen in prison.

@Clymene that's really interesting. So there are 100 female sex offenders currently in prison.

There are 60 transgender sex offenders in prison.

Therefore there are almost double the amount of female sex offenders in prison than there are transgender sex offenders.

Surely this shows that sexual assault from women is incredibly rare and from trans women even rarer?

Therefore it's men that are the problem.

Reality Check verdict: A government survey has counted 125 transgender prisoners in England and Wales, but the Ministry of Justice says these figures are not yet a reliable reflection of the true numbers. The MoJ says 60 of them have been convicted of one or more sexual offences but it didn't identify their gender. There are likely to be more trans inmates, on shorter sentences and who are less likely to be sex offenders, who don't show up in this data.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/uk-42221629

Surely this shows that sexual assault from women is incredibly rare and from trans women even rarer?

You what? That would only be the case if trans women and female women were present in equal numbers. There are far fewer trans women than female women. Therefore trans women are disproportionately likely to be sex offenders.

So just to bring this back to Kathleen Stock's blog, with apologies to her for chopping it up, but I think these passages bear repeating:

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Whatever particulars of this case are established at a future trial, I want to draw attention to some incontrovertible general facts. Some men are sexual predators. Some men rape and sexually assault women and girls. These events often leave indelible trauma for women and girls in their wake. As a society, we seem unable to hold these general facts in mind without detaching, denying, excusing, blaming, sensationalising, or changing the subject.^

... Remember – I’m just stating facts. You may not like those facts but they are still there, perfectly indifferent to your emotional responses to them. If you are a man reading this, I’m not blaming you for those facts. But equally, I’m not talking about other, different facts. Some men get sexually assaulted too. I’m not talking about that right now, though people should. I’m talking about women and girls, and the fact that some men rape and sexually assault them...

So what – strategically speaking – can a society do about these facts, assuming it wants to do anything at all? Let’s not get distracted by big picture stuff - fancy rehabilitation programmes after the fact, or longer sentencing, or bringing up men and boys completely differently from birth, or whatever. Let’s just ask: what’s the very least a society can do, to reduce the chances of some men raping and sexually assaulting women and girls in the first place, and so sparing them some trauma? And I said “reduce”, not “eliminate”. Elimination isn’t a feasible goal.

...Other than teaching women self-protection, a second thing a society can do to reduce rape and sexual assault is to encourage safeguarding social norms to get embedded, so that it becomes unusual and indeed remarkable for men to be in public areas where women and girls undress or sleep. When in these areas, women and girls are more vulnerable to assault even than usual, for obvious reasons. If there’s a well-established norm that only women and girls are in these areas, a man will look out of place. And this appearance of abnormality, in that context, may embolden the women and girls in the room to say something, or to shout, or even to seek assistance – where doing these things may be the only protection they have in that moment against larger and stronger predators.

And this:

The liberal left in the UK is stuck in a totally incoherent position. It happily approves of the first strategy – teaching women to be more assertive and even aggressive when they need to be (“listen to your instincts; channel your anger!”); yet, all the while, happily dismantling social norms separating the sexes in changing rooms, bathrooms, hostels, dormitories, and prisons, and undermining those who want to keep them (“be more inclusive!; if you feel discomfort, say nothing”.). If you work for a University, a media organisation, an arts organisation, a charity, a government department, or a third sector organisation, the chances are high that your employer now has policies stating explicitly that males who self-identify as women (not just transsexuals –any male at all who feels like a woman today, or who says they do) can legitimately enter formerly female-only spaces in your institution at will. Read that again. Yes, official policies. In some places, these policies have already enabled womenn^ and childrenn^ to be sexually assaulted. You may not like that fact, either, but it is one.

As you were

As 2% of all male prisoners in male prisons now self identify as transgender and the male estate has about 19% of its cohort as sex offenders, given that there is no evidence that transgender male prisoners have a different pattern of criminality from other men , then we can assume that there are about 300 transgender sex offenders and that is three times the rate of female offending. This of course does not include the transwomen who may or not be included in the female sex offender tally.

As 2% of all male prisoners in male prisons now self identify as transgender

Do they? Source?

Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Prisons : survey done in prisons and reported in several newspapers

To paraphrase Stock, the only way to keep women safe is to keep men - however they identify - out of women's spaces.

I don't care if they pass. I don't care if they have GRCs.

That would be because some men rape and sexually assault women and girls, right? Not all; some.

Whether they dress up as something else at the time of the assault really doesn't alter the fact. If they are wearing a gorilla suit, or a kilt, or scuba gear, it really doesn't make any difference.