Just to repost this about the study this post mentions.
However, just to also repost this point, it is irrelevant to the discussion around male people accessing female single sex provisions.
Whether or not a male person has been subjected to horrific violence is not a reason for that male person to access female single sex provisions. Many male people are violently attacked by others, but they don't get to access female single sex provisions.
Anyway, the press release for the study says:
”Transgender people are over FOUR TIMES more likely than cisgender people to experience violent victimization, including rape, sexual assault, and aggravated or simple assault”
It was from this press release.
williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/press/ncvs-trans-press-release/
I have a few issues with this press release. I think it has been used widely and extensively since it was released. I believe this document discusses those crime statistics
escholarship.org/content/qt7c3704zg/qt7c3704zg.pdf?t=qqfomk&v=lg
It refers to 369 trans people who identified their sex vs 435 061 people who were not trans identified in a study. There were 420 in total.
The numbers of members of each cohort
not transgender - 435,061
transgender man (TIF) - 181
transgender woman (TIM) - 188
prefer not to say - 51
The sample size was not mentioned at all in the press release!!
Just being generous and using the full transgender population of this survey, that equals 420/435061 =0.000965 x 100 = 0.09% is not a population that you could draw many confident conclusions from. And it would be ridiculous to make the comparison on such a small sample size.
Think about this from the point of view that women around the world admit they don’t bother to report their sexual assaults and rapes. Because they have no confidence that they will get justice AND not be vilified in the process.
What % of females actively reporting their attacks vs current trend of not bothering to report would decimate that 420 figure?
And that number cannot be accurately depicted in this point either;
”About half of all violent victimizations were not reported to police. Transgender people were as likely as cisgender people to report violence to police.”
Sure this 'maybe'. However, I believe the huge number of women telling us they don’t report.
This article is misrepresenting the reality.
Then there is this claim:
”Transgender people are over four times more likely than cisgender people to experience violent victimization, including rape, sexual assault, and aggravated or simple assault”
Including! Notice it says ‘violent victimisation including’!
Not ”Trans people are 4 times more likely to experience violent attacks including rape and sexual assault.”
What was NOT included was a handy breakdown of what constituted the crimes against trans people were. What was the bar for a hate crime being committed for instance? Misogyny? Does that fit the definition that holds for transphobic hate crimes?
“One in four transgender women who were victimized thought the incident was a hate crime compared to less than one in ten cisgender women.”
If females were taught how to accurately assess the motivation against them as to whether it constituted a hate crime, or indeed using the very same frames of reference as trans people do but based on sexism, and then they came back and reanswered that same survey, it suspect strongly that it will make that point meaningless? Is misogyny a ‘hate crime’ for instance?
Either way:
Whether or not a male person has been subjected to horrific violence is not a reason for that male person to access female single sex provisions. Many male people are violently attacked by others, but they don't get to access female single sex provisions.
Whether or not a group of male people are victimised more than other groups of people is irreverent for their inclusion into female single sex provisions! Those male people can be both victims and abusers! Risk assessment for safeguarding female single sex provisions is based on their potential to harm female people NOT on those male people's chances of being victimised!!!!