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It might be more helpful and less provocative if the original post had confined itself to the matter of someone who is obviously a pervert and stopped linking this with transgender issues. The housing of all sex offenders in prisons is a major issue which needs attention. As for the recordng of crime and prison statistics there are reports which use the terms male and female and state quite clearly that they are using sex and not gender to differentiate,
If the OP hadn’t mentioned the perpetrator’s trans status it would have ignored the relevant points that the case raises. That he is convicted as a woman of a crime that women can’t commit, that the crime is recorded as ‘female’, and that he may very well be housed in a women’s prison. All of these things have a massive impact on women’s lives and rights, so are important to feminists.
The fact that some researchers differentiate between sex and gender, if anything, clouds the issue further. They will make comparative studies more difficult to carry out as the pool of each category will be diminished.