The usual response is to say that statistics about men do not apply to transwomen, and that transwomen are at risk if they are forced to use men’s spaces. But under gender self-identification, transwomen are not objectively distinct from other male people, so there is no way to calculate robust statistics about them. The little evidence that exists shows that at least some of the males who identify as women are very dangerous indeed. Of the 125 transgender prisoners known to be in English prisons in late 2017, sixty were transwomen who had committed sexual offences, a share far higher than in
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