Worth Knowing, Probably Not Quite Threadworthy 12/21

[SVPete]

Disturbing Data Exposes UK Trans Sexual Predator Crisis

https://pjmedia.com/catherinesalgado/2025/12/20/disturbing-data-exposes-uk-trans-sexual-predator-crisis-n4947335

Two-thirds of “transgender” men in UK prisons are sexual criminals. And that’s just one of multiple chilling statistics illustrating Britain’s woke predation crisis — a crisis American leftists keep trying to import here.

JK Rowling, Harry Potter authoress and exploder of transgender fantasies, provided multiple statistics on X to undermine the claim that trans-identifying males do not pose a threat to women and girls in bathrooms, prisons, and locker rooms. In case we didn’t already know that dudes in dresses were not to be trusted…

Thomas Willett, whose X bio says “[w]riting queer  experiences,” has been arguing with Rowling about biological males in women’s facilities — always a foolish thing to do, because Rowling tends to have five facts for every one activist platitude. “Because there is no evidence to suggest that trans women using women’s spaces increases abuse against cís women. Ban trans women and nothing changes. The problem is and always has been abusive cís men, who you conveniently shield in your transphobic campaign,” Willett gibbered.

He — or she — or it couldn’t be more wrong. Rowling quickly fired back:
...
She also highlighted, “A freedom of information request in 2024 revealed that 62% of trans-identified male inmates in UK prisons had committed at least one sexual offence.” And in fact, more than 70% of UK transgender prisoners overall have committed either sexual or violent crimes, government data showed last year.

Are transies in the US especially different from those in the UK?

Given some cities' PDs' fudging of crime data, a politically motivated cover-up of transie crimes seems very plausible to me.

I realize that some of these "trans" are actually persons and sexual-assaulters using trans-identifying for access to sexual prey, but I doubt there is any effort anywhere to discern abusers from "real" transies.

[SVPete]

NYT Buries the Lede: Admits No Proof Trump Was Involved in Epstein Crimes

https://www.lifezette.com/2025/12/nyt-buries-the-lede-admits-no-proof-trump-was-involved-in-epstein-crimes/

The New York Times acknowledged in a recent report that there has never been any evidence connecting President Donald Trump to the criminal activities of convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, despite years of public speculation and repeated claims pushed by Democratic officials.

The article, written by Times reporters Nicholas Confessore and Julie Tate, was based on interviews with “more than 30 former employees of Jeffrey Epstein, victims of his abuse and others who crossed paths with Mr. Epstein and President Trump.”
...
While much of the article relied on decades-old photographs and quotes from the 1990s to suggest familiarity between Trump and Epstein, the Times ultimately conceded that its review found no evidence tying Trump to Epstein’s abuse or trafficking of minors.

“An examination of their history by The New York Times has found no evidence implicating Mr. Trump in Mr. Epstein’s abuse and trafficking of minors,” the article stated.

1. The NYT could have written this in 2016 or whenever Dems started their guilt-by-association insinuations.

2. "No evidence" is a weaselly evasion after a decade of the false claims - many published by the NYT, BTW - of admitting that the claims are simply false.

3. I've not seen it mentioned before this admission by the NYT, but the pictures of Trump used to support Dems' guilt-by-association insinuations are visually obviously of a relatively young Trump, i.e. from years before Epstein's perversions became known. OTOH, much of the text evidence and many pictures of Dems' associations with Epstein are from when/after Epstein's perversions became known.