The short answer is we simply don’t know; however, reports of more women committing sexual crimes coincide with shifts in how crime statistics data are being collected: in many jurisdictions, perpetrators’ gender identity is now recorded, rather than their sex.
The following examples highlight the alarming implications of this shift:
United Kingdom
On January 19, 2021, the BBC reported that the number of reported cases of child sexual abuse committed by women almost doubled between 2015 and 2019, from 1,249 to 2,297 (an increase of 1,048).
Fair Play for Women, a campaigning and consultancy group working to protect the rights of women and girls in the UK, clarifies that it is impossible to determine whether more women are actually committing child sexual abuse (CSA) based on the data available (a detailed explanation is provided here).
However, the consultancy group notes that various Freedom of Information (FOI) requests reveal that police commonly record self-declared gender identity instead of sex, even when the crime is rape. Thus, male suspects and convicted rapists are officially recorded as women if they identify themselves as such. Using Ministry of Justice figures of sex offenders in prison, Fair Play for Women calculates that if a similar profile holds for CSA crimes, almost 900 of the alleged 2,297 female CSA perpetrators are actually male. If accurate, these males account for almost all the reported increases since 2015.
Collecting data based on gender identity instead of sex means we lose the ability to monitor changes based on sex.
Norway
In 2016, Norway introduced self-declaration of sex, meaning that males can register themselves as female. The Norwegian policy academy’s annual report, Rape in Norway, indicates that, in the year following this change, the number of reported cases of women committing rape more than tripled from a steady 12 per year, up to 41. Some of the increase is due to a change in the definition of rape (15 cases), but this does not account for the remaining 14.
A woman emailed the policy academy asking whether anyone had changed their registered sex, and whether the increase in female rapists had any correlation with an increase in males identifying as women. Not only had this not occurred to the researchers, but they were also unaware that self-ID even existed – meaning the effects of this policy change are not being evaluated.
The report "Rape in Norway 2017" made sure to track the effects on a paragraph that changed the categorisation of certain kinds of sex-acts. But no-one thought to track the effects of the changes made to the entire variable "sex" ?
— another cell (@_matriarken) June 6, 2020
Canada
Following the addition of gender identity to the Canadian Human Rights Act in 2017, the Correctional Service of Canada (CSC) implemented an interim policy, whereby prisoners are placed according to their gender identity “unless there are overriding health or safety concerns which cannot be resolved”. Definitive data on male prisoners housed in women’s estates is difficult to obtain; however, estimates are that 50% of all requests for transfers from men’s to women’s prisons are from sex offenders.
Heather Mason, former Canadian federal prisoner and advocate for women in prison, is slowly compiling data on the number of male prisoners in women’s prisons, and the crimes they have committed. Ms Mason is currently aware of 16 transgender prisoners convicted of sex offences. If these cases are added to the estimated 21 women in prison for sexual assaults, the proportion of convicted sex offenders almost doubles.
I counted 21 women in prison for sex offences on the last ATIP someone gave me.
I counted 2126 men in federal on sex crimes.
And I have 16 trans on my list for sex crimes, SO FAR!
Keep sending me trans prisoners so I can keep the list updated.
— Heather Mason (@Mason134211f) January 19, 2021
Featured image credit: Mika Baumeister
I love how men’s ‘human rights’ involve blaming women for their crimes.
There was an SNP anti-hate bill that wanted to charge women for speaking out about their rights… I’d love to turn that POS bill around and say that calling a criminal man a woman (or any man for that matter) is inciting hate and violence against women, who have done nothing wrong.
Yes, it’s the MRAs wet dream. They always, despite statistics to the contrary in every nation worldwide, insisted that women commit as much violent and sexual criminality. Now as more men identify as women, MRAs will finally get the numbers they wanted.
Omg yes. How many times have I heard MRAs say that women kill as many men as men do – as if there’s some super secret genocidal cabal of women secretly killing men secretly… which is why women are like 5-10%of murderers…
Men game the system. I women won’t step up and murder more men to appease the MRAs then men will just have to identify as women and do the murdering and pedophiling themselves.
Yes. Not only are women ostensibly having to wear the indignity of the assertion/assumption that we’re committing more horrifically disgusting, male-pattern crime such as paedophilia and sexually motivated murder due to this absurd ideological capture, but it will render the safeguarding of children even more difficult to manage. After all, if women are supposedly committing the same kinds of depraved, sexually motivated crimes as men in ever greater numbers – surely it will be reasoned that children may as well be cared for by men?
There is a fear held by people within the gender critical movement that even more predatory men will be emboldened to use this line of reasoning to insert themselves into positions of trust for which they’d never have been considered previously and I can imagine it happening at some point in the future myself if statistical drift like this continues unchecked.
Expecting men with a sexual pathology to not be any more dangerous than the mainstream population is like expressing surprise water is wet. It is the rational expectation – people are fighting really hard to suppress base common sense on that one. Even so there is ample positive evidence that FTM AGP types are inherently dangerous. A good article I found on the subject of narcissistic rage that gets triggered by any denial of their fauxmininity:
https://uncommongroundmedia.com/how-long-has-this-been-going-on-biological-males-in-the-female-prison-estate/
Some of this comes from one of their number – an “honest AGP” who happens to have a unique ability to shed light on the phenomenon. This is obvious to anyone who has seen the activist behaviour, let alone prisoners with rape convictions (and worse).
Hey, could you clarify the methodology used for the calculation done here:
“Using Ministry of Justice figures of sex offenders in prison, Fair Play for Women calculates that if a similar profile holds for CSA crimes, almost 900 of the alleged 2,297 female CSA perpetrators are actually male.”
I don’t doubt you and I want to stand up for women’s rights too, but I just want to understand the assumptions made before sharing this article with other people.
The link to Fair Play for Women’s calculation of the data from the UK Ministry of Justice is right in the article.
https://fairplayforwomen.com/sex_data_wrong/
“According to official MOJ figures, in 2019 there were 13359 people in prison convicted of sexual offences. 125 of these are recorded as female and another 76 are known to be males who identify as women. This means there are around 200 sex offenders in prison who either is a woman or self-identifies as woman. The ratio of women to transwomen in prison for sexual offences is around 3:2. In other words, there are two transwomen for every three women in prison convicted of sex offending. That’s 38% of the ‘women’ in prison for sex offending actually being transwomen.
If this same ratio applies to police reports of child sexual abuse it is reasonable to assume that up to 38% of the 2297 recorded as perpetrated by ‘females’ may also in fact be male’s who identify as women. That’s almost 900 males recorded as female. This would be enough to account for almost all of the reported increase since 2015.”
Well, seeing as we women, don’t exist anymore, and there are more tim’s calling themselves women, the answer must be’ yes’. – (sarcasm mode engaged)
It pisses me off when I hear stuff like “Most transgender women are not perverts. Most attacks on women are from cis men, not trans women. That’s not an excuse to lump them together.” Guess what?! Transgender women are biological men, and they present the same threat as a biological man would if they were perverted creeps.
Here’s a comment from a trans activist:
If a guy was going to assault a woman in the bathroom, they wouldn’t go through a transition just to be a predator, they’d just go in or like abduct them on the street (many women know from experience). Women can’t safely walk down a street at night without the fear of being cat called, kidnapped or raped by a cis, straight, man but for some reason people are more worried about trans people for the sole reason of them being an easier target.
Also if you’re worried about men assaulting you in the bathroom bc they identified as women, guess what? Both men and women can assault you. Why aren’t you worried about going into bathrooms with women, they can be about as bad as men. Oh also some trans women pass as cis (although you don’t need to) and you’d never know, and would you want them in the men’s bathroom? I wouldn’t.
The part of that comment above that says “Both men and women can assault you” is stupid. Most predators are biological men, while most victims of sexual violence are biological women. A man is more likely to assault you than a woman is.
Here’s an article: https://time.com/5865581/transphobia-terf-harm/
Here’s an quote from the article above: Let’s be clear: there is no evidence that trans-inclusive laws lead to a rise in criminality—assaults, stalking or harassment—in single-sex spaces. In 2018, peer-reviewed journal Sexuality Research and Social Policy concluded that “fears of increased safety and privacy violations as a result of non-discrimination laws are not empirically grounded.”
Here’s this article: https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/no-link-between-trans-inclusive-policies-bathroom-safety-study-finds-n911106
Here’s some quotes from the article above: There is no evidence that letting transgender people use public facilities that align with their gender identity increases safety risks, according to a new study from the Williams Institute at UCLA School of Law. The study is the first of its kind to rigorously test the relationship between nondiscrimination laws in public accommodations and reports of crime in public restrooms and other gender-segregated facilities.
“Opponents of public accommodations laws that include gender identity protections often claim that the laws leave women and children vulnerable to attack in public restrooms,” said lead author Amira Hasenbush. “But this study provides evidence that these incidents are rare and unrelated to the laws.”
Here’s another article: https://www.californialawreview.org/print/6-are-womens-spaces-transgender-spaces-single-sex-domestic-violence-shelters-transgender-inclusion-and-the-equal-protection-clause/
Here’s some quotes from this article above: Transgender women present no threat to cisgender women in shelters. All VAWA programs funded in the past six years to seven years have been required to house transgender women in accordance with their gender identity. Despite the intense media scrutiny that transgender women using women’s facilities face, no evidence demonstrates that they are a threat to cisgender women’s safety in shelters. In fact, transgender people themselves face a disproportionate amount of violence in shelters: 70 percent of transgender people who stayed in a shelter in 2015 reported some form of mistreatment, including harassment, forced removal, or physical violence.14
Citing the safety of cisgender women is merely a thinly veiled attempt to present transgender women as dangerous predators. Yet in reality, the rule could endanger cisgender women, who may become unable to access shelters as they are forced to close or limit their hours due to reduced funding. Additionally, cisgender women would be subject to sex stereotyping, meaning that any woman who does not conform to a shelter’s preconceptions could be refused service.
And here’s another article: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13178-018-0335-z
Here’s what I’m going to say: I could so see a man deciding to identify as a woman just so he could get into women spaces like bathrooms and changing rooms and act predatory. Identifying would actually make it easier for predators to be in women bathrooms and changing rooms since women will end up being less likely to tell on them do to the risks of them being labeled transphobe and getting into trouble for discrimination.
I’ve heard many trans activists say stuff like that never happens, but it does. Here are some stories of that happening:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGu_M-5r1I8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH5fX0d4A_I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=enGtSk1AR5A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e7xf3_-4Ek
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxdAm5Ug98E
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqvinuQNxw8
As for the the articles (and people) that say it’s rare for biological women to be assaulted by transgender women, I think a lot of these cases get covered up. I heard when a transgender woman was accused of sexually assaulting four inmates at a women’s correctional facility in the United Kingdom, they tried to cover up the case and pretend that it didn’t happen. Also, a lot of women who were sexual assaulted usually don’t tell people about it in fear of being blamed for it happening, so a lot of sexual assault cases are not reported. So if a biological woman was sexual assaulted by a transgender woman, they may be less likely to report it due to not only the fear of being blame for it but also because of the fear of being labeled a transphobe and getting into trouble for discrimination.
So I doubt the cases where biological women are assaulted by transgender women are as rare as many trans activists try making it out to seem.
This entire website is essentially a catalogue of incidents which disprove that particular trans activist assertion. Consequently, trans “rights” extremists like to accuse those who contribute to & run this website of “cataloguing transphobia – just as they accuse Professor Holy Lawford-Smith of by daring to collate the negative experiences suffered by women & as a result of gender identity ideology being enshrined in law etc.