Thread by @WepWomen

The opening testimony from at the @WEP_UK members assembly on self ID stated that 'trans women face the same risks from men as women and girls do'....🧐.

Time for a #WEPfactcheck

#debateisnothate

https://twitter.com/WepWomen/status/1306275422745878529

The UK is one of the safest EU countries to live. In fact there were no reported transgender murders in the UK at all in 2016. Since the start of the Trans Murder Monitoring project in 2008 there has been on average just under 1 transgender person murdered in the UK each year.

The question we can now ask is whether transgender people at a higher risk of being killed than the average person? The data analysis suggests that they are not.

An estimate of the UK trans population size was published by Gender Identity Research and Education Society (GIRES)

It estimates that 1% of the UK pop. are gender non-conforming. Based on this, the trans murder rate is in fact significantly lower than for the average person

#WEPfactcheck
fairplayforwomen.com/trans-murder-r…

The question is, do males with a trans identity continue to commit sexual and violent offences at the same rates as other males?

There is little data on this, but the last longitudinal study examining this found.....🧐

#WEPfactcheck

journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

... what did it find oh wise #WEPfactchecker...?

Transwomen are 6 times more likely to commit a crime & 18 times more likely to commit a violent crime compared to female controls.

And Trans women commit crime, including violent crime, at a similar rate as any other males

So what about the prison population? #WEPfactcheck 1 in every 50 male prisoners is a trans woman. This would suggest that they are over represented in the prison population.

telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/0…

Unless of course these are simply predatory men using SELF-ID to receive perks and access to the female estate.

Either way, under self ID prison officers, the public and the courts have no way of testing a 'genuine gender identity'.

unherd.com/thepost/why-ar…

James Morton form Scottish Trans Alliance who gave evidence to the @WEP_UK assembly in fact wrote Scottish Prison Policy allowing men to self ID into the female estate whilst in his role as the manager of Scottish Trans Alliance...

and guess what....🧐

scottish-women.com/2018/09/12/sco…

In James's writing of this self ID prison policy his Equality Impact Assessment not only incorrectly names the protected characteristics, (gender and gender identity are NOT in the Equality Act 2010) it doesn’t even consider that WOMEN would be affected by this.

#WEPfactcheck

That's all folks

Please keep an eye out for this #

We will be live tweeting & fact checking the presentations given at the next members assembly this wednesday eve.

@WEP_UK members, don't forget to register. Check your emails sisters XX

#debate #sexnotgender #debateisnothate