Lionking said:
It’s both. If you read some of the links posted here (which I doubt you have) you will see that the percentage of transwomen convicted and jailed in the UK for sexual offences is around 50%, more than twice the rate of male prisoners. The fact that this rapist is transgender is completely relevant.
The sheer number of trans-identifying men in prison (in proportion to their frequency in the population at large) is startling, and the sheer number of them who are there for sexual crimes is even more startling. Or rather, not quite as startling as all that when one considers the huge number of high profile perverts and weirdos who present themselves as trans, but it's still a bit of a shock to see it confirmed in hard numbers.
There are only two possible explanations for this. Either trans-identifying males are indeed vastly more likely to commit sexual offences than other men (never mind in comparison to women, who barely trouble the scorer in that respect), or else an awful lot of sex offenders have decided that adopting a trans persona is a smart career move.
I suspect it's a bit of both. Adam Graham looks a lot like the latter category to me. There are also individuals who pretty much defy analysis - people like Andrew Burns who are so disturbed it's impossible to separate off the proclaimed trans identity from "Mighty Almighty" or "Obi-Wan Kenobi" (and he should probably be in Carstairs, not Cornton Vale), and like Albert Caballero who seems to have learning difficulties. Nevertheless the trans identity of people like Jonathan Yaniv and "Beth Douglas" (can't remember his real name) doesn't seem put-on for effect, but part of the whole obnoxious package.
The problem for the trans activists is that they're screwed either way. If everyone who says he is trans is to be believed, trust people when they tell you who they are, they know best, self-ID is the way to go, then trans-identifying males are a population with an absolutely terrifying proportion of sex offenders in it. On the other hand if the figures are being skewed by bad actors, by sex offenders who simply see a declaration that they're trans as being a nice ticket to a less restrictive prison régime and being locked up with women who can't get away and having the fun of forcing prison staff to provide you with adult nappies and a dummy tit and hold your hand for you, then self-ID is holed below the water line.
As I say, it's probably a bit of both. But get this. It is long past time for politicians to stop thinking only about the "absolutely lovely" transitioned man who is polite and gentle and wouldn't hurt a fly, and rearranging the world solely for the benefit of this person. Indeed, how much benefit is all this rearranging of the world actually going to be to these people? When you drill down into it, it seems to boil down to no more than avoiding the occasional incident or confrontation that might embarrass them.
For this laudable aim, women - half the population, the half that is weaker and less able to defend itself and which has been disadvantated for centuries - is to have Adam Graham and Andrew Burns and the rest of that list I provided earlier and "Beth Douglas" and Jonathan Yaniv and Mridul Wahadwa and Leeze Lawrence and the rest of the revolting legions of perverted, fetishistic, violent men foisted on them. In toilets and changing rooms and sports competitions and prisons and YH dormitories and domestic violence and rape shelters. And in lesbian dating apps and women's knitting circles and even dinner parties. No place at all where they can't go, no place at all for women to be free of male company.
It's time for the politicians to find some other way to spare the polite, considerate, inoffensive trans people a bit of embarrassment, and start considering the interests of the 51% of the population they've been expecting will just move over and give up everything to the Sacred Trans.
Because we won't.
