Every once in a while I have to remind myself and you too that the vast majority of people who identify as transgender are not sexual predators.

They are, on the whole, people who suffer from some sort of mental illness. Perhaps dysphoria, anxiety, depression, or even psychosis. Transgenderism becomes a category that provides a context within which to understand and deal with their issues while getting tremendous social support.

With that said, the rise of the alphabet ideology has invited a new category of people into the transgender tent: sexual predators. The drive to accommodate and celebrate transgenderism has been an invitation for men with various frustrations to invade women’s spaces and take them over. Transgender athletes are one such category; another is sexual predators and deviants.

Yet another example of this, in addition to those rapists who worm their way into women’s prisons, are the men who join gyms to gawk at women in locker rooms, and those who become residents of women’s shelters to prey on already victimized women.

It’s disgusting, and it is also the official policy of many governments to enable this abuse.

A #trans person is being sought by Windsor Police in Ontario, Canada over a sexual assault at a women's shelter. Cody D’Entremont, also known as “Desiree Anderson,” is described by police as a she/her and former resident of the women’s shelter. https://t.co/G5aZVZLTh3

— Andy Ngô 🏳️‍🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) April 20, 2023

Sexual predators are a special breed and one which has presented terrible problems in public policy. Here in Minnesota, we face a terrible problem due to the long-changed sentencing guidelines that imposed sentences that turned out to be way too short for convicted sex offenders.

As the research demonstrated that many sex offenders cannot be reformed and that released sex offenders re-offend extremely frequently the state moved to civilly commit sex offenders once their prison sentences expired.

This was, properly, ruled unconstitutional. Sadly so. But the state really can’t convict and sentence people and then hold them indefinitely when it changes its mind.

The state invented a civil process that was separate from the criminal conviction and used it to hold sex offenders indefinitely. It is an imperfect but likely necessary solution to what amounts to an insoluble problem: some people are just broken. Still, the whole program is under constant legal challenge. During the Pawlenty administration, a friend of mine was named the Sex Offender Czar and needless to say, I didn’t envy him.

Unfortunately, it looks like we will have to learn this lesson again, as transgender ideology is giving sexual predators direct and state-sponsored access to ready victims. Our bureaucratic and political betters have decided that the needs of alphabet people are more important than the safety of vulnerable women, so we are forcing these to cohabitate with sexual predators who claim they are actually women.

Women who rape women, but women nonetheless.

So we get this:

This woman with a 5 o’clock shadow was allowed in a women’s shelter. A violent sexual predator.

Women’s shelters, women’s prisons, women’s sports, and women’s locker rooms. They are no longer women’s spaces.

When a Mother complained about this man watching young daughters undress in the women's changing rooms, she was threatened with arrest.

Turns out swimming pool staff were protecting a paedophile instead of children.https://t.co/s04YaQXOmd

— ManaWāhineKōrero (@MKorero) April 18, 2023

This is only one of many cases out there if you bother to look. It’s no secret that it is happening. It’s just ideologically inconvenient.

“There seem to be more and more cases of this type of thing,” Mason said on Wednesday.” More men and more predators specifically see that all they have to do is say they identify as a woman and they can get into these spaces.”

And politicians? Well, they’ve turned a deaf ear to the plight of women struggling in violent relationships, drug addiction or criminal entanglements.

“All the politicians, it never affects them. They and their wives and daughters are never going to be in a shelter or jail,” Mason said, adding, “how many times does this happen and we don’t even know about it?”

Women’s spaces are becoming hunting grounds.