Last week, it came out that The Calgary Stampede _KNEW_ about, and did nothing to stop a child molester working in their midst. This isn’t a couple of middle managers “knowing about” and dropping the ball, it’s the board - the senior executives. Then this morning, I awoke to the following headline out of Australia: “Childcare worker charged with sex abuse of 91 children”.
It’s been like this for a while. Every day there are headlines about child molesters appearing. They’re often people in positions of trust and authority - group leaders, coaches, pastors, priests, and so on. Ten minutes with any reasonable search engine turns up a plethora of cases in the headlines - all of them recent. I shudder to think how many cases don’t make it into the headlines - because media still only prints the most salacious of cases.
What do these cases have in common? It is almost never someone who is transgender (ie - in my quick look this morning, I found exactly zero cases involving trans people or drag queens). While such cases may exist, they are vanishingly rare. So rare as to suggest that the uproar over transgender people living their lives is clearly vastly overblown.
