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Originally Posted by AGDee
I've never been afraid of any transgender women. Of all the people I know who have been raped, the rapist has never been a transgender woman. It's always been a cisgender man. That's who I'm afraid of.
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Not to throw a wrench into the works......but I work with convicted criminals for a living. Not "all", but a number of male rapists will become transgender females later.
We do have a decent number of transgender women housed in our male prisons. A couple of years ago, I started to notice that the transgender inmates seemed to have a higher incidence of being sex offenders, namely rapists. Looking at their booking photos over the years, they were male-appearing at first and then, over time, transitioned to being transgender women while in prison.
I was curious to see in verifiable data what the actual percentage is vs transgender inmates who are not sex offenders. I am able to pull a report for how many transgender inmates we have and I am able to pull a report for how many sex offenders we have....but I am not able to pull a report for transgender inmates who are sex offenders. I would have to look each one up manually - that would be a big project and it's not a part of my daily job duties, thus not a super great use of my employer's time.
I find this interesting from an
academic, non-political viewpoint. It would be interesting to examine if some male rapists are possibly doing so because they feel "different" inside and they are taking it out on females, in essence, because they hate themselves for feeling that way.
But please don't assume that a male rapist means that he's definitely heterosexual and non-transgender. I was quite intrigued when I started to put two and two together........
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