The Post-Partisan Emporium

  The Statistic No One's Allowed To Study Why are so many transgender prisoners sex offenders? MARY HARRINGTON A Detroit  billboard  educating passers-by on what they’re allowed to notice Another day, another new report showing that half of trans prisoners are sex offenders. The report, obtained via a 2022 public records request to Wisconsin’s Department of Corrections, shows that  of the 161 men in Wisconsin jails who self-reported as transender, 81 (50.3%) were sex offenders . This figure is borne out scross the English-speaking world. In 2017, the UK feminist group  Fair Play for Women  showed via Freedom of Information requests that roughly  half of the trans-identified male prisoners in the United Kingdom were sex offenders . Was this a blip? Was it a misleading statistic, based on too small a sample? The BBC’s “fact check” team  did their best  to make this seem plausible. In the intervening years, though, figures dragged from other pri...

  Which orifice? What organs? Who cares? Andrea Long Chu says all the quiet parts out loud MARY HARRINGTON The  award , in May, of a Pulitzer Prize for criticism to New York Magazine writer Andrea Long Chu, occasioned  howls  of outrage from gender-critical feminists. This was not prompted by the actual essays mentioned in the award, though. Rather, the fury stemmed from Long Chu’s real claim to fame: saying all the quiet parts out loud on gender ideology. The central provocation on this front is Chu’s 2019 monograph  Females , described by Verso as “a genre-defying investigation into sex and lies” and by gender-critical writer Lauren Smith as “ poorly disguised misogyny ”.  Females  draws together Chu’s personal development toward transgender identification, a re-read of work by  SCUM Manifesto  author Valerie Solanas, and a baroque theory of pornography and desire, into a central, controversial thesis: “Everyone is female, and everyone hate...