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 prison services around the Anglosphere show

  Shiny Object a traditional decoy used by pickpockets CHRIS BRAY A challenge, and a tough one, but see if you can penetrate the nuance to maybe spot a pattern in the  recent   social   media   messaging  from Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath: She’ll be doing Pride today, but if you miss it, don’t worry, ‘cause she’ll be doing Pride tomorrow, and the day after, and the day after, and the day after, and the day after, and and and…. cOmE tO oNe Of OuR SiX tRiLLioN pRiDe eVEnTs tHiS wEEk!!!!!!!! Now, Los Angeles County has a population near ten million people, with a $43 billion  budget  and 114,000 employees. From a Powerpoint presentation you’ll find at that last link, the county has, let’s put this gently, certain  challenges  ahead of it: Let’s zoom in on the top right corner of that slide: The county expects, in the near future, to pay a few billion dollars to resolve “3,000+ legal claims alleging childhood sexual assault at County facilities.” Nothing major, just  thous