There is little hard evidence to back up this assertion, but LGBT advocates and other opponents of the bills have had to develop a number of counter-arguments to refute it. There are more than a dozen states and several cities that have non-discrimination laws that protect gender identity in public accommodations, which is a legalistic way of saying transgender people can use whatever bathrooms they want in public. This is the kind of affirmation that started the whole controversy in North Carolina. F ears about male predators have not been borne out in those places. New York City has banned discrimination based on gender identity for more than a decade.

The Understudied Female Sexual Predator



Psychologist breaks down how to spot a sexual predator | Daily Mail Online
Take a moment and picture an image of a rapist. Without a doubt, you are thinking about a man. Given our pervasive cultural understanding that perpetrators of sexual violence are nearly always men, this makes sense. But this assumption belies the reality, revealed in our study of large-scale federal agency surveys, that women are also often perpetrators of sexual victimization. In , we published a study on the sexual victimization of men, finding that men were much more likely to be victims of sexual abuse than was thought.


10 Ways Female Sexual Predators Assault Men And Boys
Intrigued, she began to investigate: Was sexual violence against men more common than previously thought? The inquiry was a timely one. But the same conversation needs to happen for men.



Most of the time men come to mind when one thinks of sexual predators. This is not always the case, though. Many cases throughout history have shown that there are women sex offenders as well.