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Do the stats on trans people being child abusers pan out ?
More specifically, I am talking about MTF trans people getting into positions of power or supervision (however small, but still) and taking advantage of it for child abuse or sexual crimes in general. The plural of anecdotes is not data, but more than a few anecdotes of a statistically unlikely combination absolutely raises alarm bells.
No value judgement here. Want to start with tallying the numbers first.
I’m wondering whether such numbers are actually tabulable, given that ‘who counts as a trans woman’ is controversial in itself.
I'd wonder: if a cis man is convicted of a sex crime and then suddenly "comes out" as a trans woman post-conviction, is the crime retroactively amended to indicate that it was committed by a trans woman? Or are they only so recorded if the perpetrator identified as a trans woman at the time they were convicted?
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I'd say, was openly claiming to be trans or dressing visibly as the opposite sex at least 1 year before being caught..... is a start.
Some phenomenon are impossible to ignore, even without adequate data. Philosophy and culture commentary youtubers being trans (or trans adjacent) is one such case. I was already exclaiming "why are all pop-sci left commentators trans?", and then Philosophy tube and Jim sterling also turned out to be trans. There's something going on there, for sure.
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