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Trans women and sexual predation statistics
For all those folk who are so keen to use the sexual violence stats against trans women, here is a heads up for you. Even if 99% of convictions are cis men, that still means 1% are cis women or trans women with a GRC in the UK. That means that cis women are still capable of being sexual predators, and denying that fact erases their victims. Cis women commit sexual violence are rates which have not fully been documented yet, so to say that women’s spaces are safe when just cis women are in them is patently untrue. Cis women prey on cis women and girls, its just that society usually turns a blind eye to those crimes unless they are particularly heinous.
What is frustrating in painting trans women as sexual predators is that there is ample evidence that cis women commit these crimes. Google Scholar returns over 17,000 entries for academic papers in the last four years covering the topic — https://scholar.google.com/scholar?as_ylo=2019&q=female+sex+offenders&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5 — showing that there is growing interest in this field of work. None of this is to diminish the fact that the vast majority of sexual offences are committed by cis men, but ignoring cis female sexual predation and portraying trans women as predators creates a disturbing narrative.
To those who actually need a refesher, this is the most recent UK sexual crime survey data. Not…
