Statistics Show That HALF of Trans-Identified Men in Prison Are Sex Offenders

Prison data from different years and countries seems to paint the same consistent picture

Many Western countries are transferring men into women’s prisons and calling this violation of women’s human rights “progress.” Yes, this is really happening, and it’s been happening for a while. Actually, in some places, it’s been happening for decades. There did used to be some semblance of safeguards in place, mainly that the man in question was required to get “bottom surgery” before such a transfer could take place. While a castrated man is not a woman and has no more claim to womanhood than an uncastrated one, this at least created a barrier to entry and kept the transfers few and far between. With the introduction of sex self-identification, this is no longer the case.

Countries like my own, Canada, now allow men to request transfer to a women’s prison on the basis of their supposedly female “gender identity” alone. Not all of these requests are granted, but that’s a small solace when they are granted to men like Adam Laboucan, who sexually assaulted a three-month-old infant. Laboucan’s crime may be particularly shocking, but he is not an outlier in this cohort when it comes to being a sex offender.

When looking at statistics gathered over many years from different countries, a certain picture about trans-identified male prisoners begins to emerge: about half of them are in prison for sexual offenses. This rate is about three times higher than it is for the general male prison population.

I wanted to collect these statistics for my own sake, so that I could reference them quickly and easily in one place. Then I thought, why not make a post about it for others to reference as well? All credit and much gratitude obviously goes to the people and organizations who requested, released, and/or drew attention to the information. My goal was simply to consolidate as much of it as I could. Everything is thoroughly linked, sourced, and credited, and I’ve done my best to ensure the data is accurate and interpreted correctly.

So, let’s get started.

The earliest data I could find on this matter comes from the UK and was collected by Fair Play For Women. In 2017, Fair Play For Women conducted its own analysis of prison inspection reports and concluded that roughly half of “transgender” inmates in England and Wales were serving time for sex offenses. This estimate was later confirmed through a Ministry of Justice Freedom of Information request which showed that 60 out of 125 trans-identified inmates did indeed have at least one conviction for a sexual offense.

Fair Play For Women obtained updated and corroborating data in 2019 which showed that 81 out of 163 trans-identified prisoners in England and Wales had at least one sex offense. Since 129 of those prisoners were serving time in a male prison, it could be extrapolated with high certainty that all 129 were male. Of these offenders, 76 had sex offenses. The other 5 were housed in female prisons, which could mean they were males with a gender recognition certificate. While this made it difficult to calculate the exact number, it was almost certain that at least 76 out of 129 trans-identified men—58.9%—were serving time for sex offenses in 2019 in the UK.

This data was submitted as evidence by Professor Rosa Freedman, Professor Kathleen Stock, and Professor Alice Sullivan to the Reform of the Gender Recognition Act inquiry.

Meanwhile, we were starting to see similar numbers over in Canada. By this time, Heather Mason, an advocate for women in prison, had started speaking out. In an important article for Women Are Human, Mason revealed that a meeting about the transfer of prisoners with “gender considerations” took place on May 23, 2019 (she also posted meeting notes to her X account). During the meeting, former Deputy Commissioner for Women, Kelly Blanchette, reported that half of all requests for transfers from male to female prisons came from sex offenders. This was in contrast to the 20% rate of sex offenses in the general male prison population.

Around the same time, data was coming out of New Zealand. I have found requests for information from the Department of Corrections which, when taken together, show similar trends to the UK and Canada. The first request, made in April 2019, was for a breakdown of trans-identified people in New Zealand prisons. The response showed a total of 43 such prisoners: 3 “transgender men,” 32 “transgender women,” 1 “non-binary,” and 7 “unspecified.”

Of the “transgender women,” 25 were in a men’s prison and 7 in a women’s prison.

A few months later, a second request asked for a breakdown of the offenses of currently incarcerated transgender prisoners. The response showed that, of the 35 prisoners who “identified as transgender” (so, excluding the non-binary and unspecified categories), 15 had a sexual offense.

Even if we want to be as generous as possible and assume the unlikely scenario that all three “transgender men” had a sex offense, that would still leave 12/32 “transgender women” with a sex offense, for a rate of 38%.

Note that this number was likely higher—potentially as high as 47% (15/32)—and note the fairly high rate of violent offenses as well.

In 2021, Keep Prisons Single Sex USA showed us that the higher rate of sex offenses among trans-identified men in prison holds true in the States as well. The group made a public records request to the Federal Bureau of Prisons and received data that showed the “sex offenses” rate among “trans male to female” inmates was 48.47%. This is compared to a rate of 11.2% in the general prison population (including both men and women) and just 4.71% for trans-identified females.

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From a recent public records request: Incarcerated males identifying as "trans" are significantly disproportionately likely to be in for "sex offenses." 1/3

In late 2022, quite surprisingly, Correctional Service Canada released two in-depth and very damning reports about “gender diverse offenders” in the federal prison system. This was brought to wider attention by journalist Genevieve Gluck.

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A report released by the Canadian Correctional Service in 2022 revealed that 82% of “gender diverse” prisoners with a history of sexual offending were men who identified as "trans women".

The first report was titled “Examination of Gender Diverse Offenders.” It revealed that there were 99 “gender diverse offenders” in custody between December 27, 2017 and March 13, 2020, composed of 62% “trans-women,” 21% “trans-men,” and 17% “other.”

The second report, “Gender Diverse Offenders with a History of Sexual Offending,” further revealed that 33% of these 99 “gender diverse” offenders had a history of sexual offending, 82% of which were “trans-women.” This means that 44% of incarcerated men who said they were trans women were sexual offenders. Gluck also highlighted the fact that "The majority (85%) committed offences that caused death or serious harm to their victim(s) while 70% inflicted psychological harm on their victim(s)." The highest proportion of victims were children or female.

And this was just for the men that identified specifically as “trans women.” Note that 17% of “gender diverse offenders” with sexual offenses were placed in an “other” group, which the report defined as, “gender fluid, gender non-conforming/non-binary, intersex, two-spirited, or unspecified.” Depending on how many in this “other” group were men, it could change the total number of trans-identified male sex offenders. And, in fact, it did.

In early 2023, journalist Christina Buttons, writing for the Daily Wire, reached out to Correctional Service Canada for clarification on the biological sex of these individuals:

Marie Pier Lécuyer, the senior media relations advisor for the Correctional Service Canada, explained that “of the 33 gender diverse offenders identified with a sex offense history, 84.9% (28) were male and 15.1% (5) were female at the time of the study.”

Doing the math, this means that 46% of trans-identified males, or men who identified as something other than male in Canadian federal prison, had committed sex offenses. Buttons also pointed out that 92% had been incarcerated for violent crimes. This is in stark contrast to just 25.8% of the general male prison population serving sentences for violent offenses.

In 2023, we also got a look at some data coming out of Australia. Fair Go for Queensland Women reported that, as of June 30, 2023, there were 65 trans-identified men in the Queensland male prison estate. Of that number, 55% were held on the most serious charges of sexual or violent offenses (compared to 48% for males and 35% for females).

When considering aggravated sexual assault on its own, the numbers were 23.1% for trans-identified men compared to 12.81% for the general male prison population—almost double.

Note that, in Queensland, aggravated sexual assault refers to a sexual assault while armed with a weapon or in the company of a co-offender. This no doubt means that the rate of sexual assault itself is much higher.

Let’s return to the States where, in 2023, Keep Prisons Single Sex USA made another FOI request to the Federal Bureau of Prisons. Once again we see that the rate of sex offenses for “trans male-to-female” prisoners is roughly half, at 47.18%. The sex offense rate for the general prison population also remained fairly steady, at 12.2%.

Around the same time, the Oversight Project revealed that it had received data showing that 50.3% of “transgender women” in Wisconsin DOC prisons were “convicted of at least one count of sexual assault or sexual abuse,” further corroborating these rates.

So, what do we make of these numbers? Trans activists just wave them away—but they don’t care about the safety and human rights of women in prison. Anyone who actually claims to care must grapple with the stats.

Now spanning several years and several countries, these stats show us that about half of men in prison who say they are transgender are sex offenders. This is anywhere from twice to four times the rate of male prisoners who don’t claim a trans identity.

Why is this important at all? Because these men request and are in fact sometimes granted transfer to female prisons. They are often painted as highly vulnerable when it seems that they are actually more dangerous than other men, committing sexual and violent crimes at even higher rates. Far from having the pattern of offending of the female sex they claim to be, their rates are even worse than that of their fellow males.

There can be and have been objections to these numbers. Some say the number of trans-identified prisoners is too small to draw any real conclusions from. This could be fair enough if we now didn’t have data from at least the five different countries, some at different points in time, that all show similar rates. To dismiss out of hand that something is going on here is to be wilfully blind.

Others say that the numbers are distorted by the amount of trans-identified prisoners who are not “out of the closet.” Again, this could be the case. There could be many more men who secretly identify as trans but do not want to say so. But for this hypothetical scenario to have a significant enough impact on the offending pattern of trans-identified male prisoners to bring them down to even general male levels, there would have to be a lot of them and they would virtually all have to not be violent or sexual offenders.

Then there’s the fact that a large number of prisoners could be self-identifying as trans in order to secure transfer to a female prison and serve easier time and even to gain access to more victims. Heather Mason is familiar with one such case in Canada, and there is no doubt in my mind there must be more. The Canadian report, “Gender Diverse Offenders with a History of Sexual Offending,” does indeed note that: “Almost all (94%) had committed their offences while living as their biological sex.”

But all this does is fly in the face of the trans activist mantra that “you’re trans if you say you are!” and reveal the stupidity of policies that allow these transfers (as well as of the practice of codifying “gender identity” into policy and law in general).

Any way you slice it, transferring these men into women’s prisons is bad and inhumane policy. It is nothing less than cruel and unusual punishment inflicted on the women inside.

My own personal opinion is that most of these men are autogynephiles, and it is no surprise to me that men who let their sexual fetish lead their lives are more likely to be sex offenders. In fact, I am dumbfounded at the collective societal amnesia we seem to have when it comes to these men. We used to know that serial killers were more likely to have a crossdressing fetish, for example (which is just one of the many ways autogynephilia manifests). Frankly, none of this should be a surprise.

I do need to add—and I usually hate to hedge but this is a very serious topic—that I don’t think these prison numbers are reflective of all autogynephiles or all men who identify as women/trans. No, I don’t think half are sex offenders. The small number of men who openly identify as trans and are in prison for very serious crimes is a highly specific group that no doubt has significant differences from the population of men in general who identify as trans.

But none of this matters when it comes to the prison conversation. Men do not belong in women’s prisons. Nothing more than that should have to be said on the matter. However, because enough people, including people in power, don’t seem to understand this, hopefully some data will help wake them up. If it doesn’t, then they are a lost cause and should be left behind to one day hang their head in shame.