Old Things
I am unworthy of His grace
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The source you provided inflated number of transwoman offenders by 16.7x in the figure. According to your own article, these people did not identify as women at the time of the assault.
That is, if you're using this as evidence that transwomen do sexual offenses, the number is 6% of what you see in that graph. They claim 32% are offenders, which means that only 32%*.06=<2% of the sexual assault attributed to transwomen here were committed by biological men identifying as women.
What you have is evidence that people transition in response to charges of sexual assault. This is a HUGE problem and certainly a difficulty for anyone that believes identity = self-identification, but it doesn't support your conclusion that transwomen are violent. The article itself states:
These patterns strongly suggest that some high-risk male sexual offenders are exploiting gender self-identification policies to gain access to women’s facilities.
So even the author doesn't believe this is evidence of transwomen offending.
From the rules:
If you want to express an opinion that marginalises another group, you are still free to do so. However, if you truly believe your thoughts are worth sharing after considering the cost of implicitly attacking another group, then you are required to back up that opinion with evidence.
Your evidence doesn't support your claim. I need either better evidence or a retraction of the claim. Thanks.
Here is what I will say based on this quote:
These patterns strongly suggest that some high-risk male sexual offenders are exploiting gender self-identification policies to gain access to women’s facilities.
1) Some "high-risk" males are exploiting gender self-identification to get access to women's facilities, and this is a universal phenomenon.
2) We don't know which males are being truthful with their gender self-identity and which ones are not to get access to women's facilities (or if there is a messy overlap in between).
Therefore,
C) The exploitative nature of gender self-identity for "high-risk" males (trans women), whether they truly identify as trans women or not, they pose a higher risk to women.
In other words, we don't actually have direct evidence that trans women are high-risk. However, men are exploiting gender self-identity as trans women to get access to women's facilities, and this is a universal phenomenon. So while there is no direct evidence that trans women are a danger to women, there is an abductive argument that is likely for that. Why? Because there is no evidence about men going to prison as the cause for them to identify as trans women to get access to women's facilities. There would need to be evidence that prison is the cause of their change of genre self-identity.
I am just trying to be fair with the evidence. I know you are not really big into logic and philosophy and like to stick to empiricism, but I am trying to make the most logical argument I can, given the data.