Aggression and Criminality Differences: Androphilic vs. Gynephilic

One of the first transsexuals I met at the Stanford Gender Dysphoria Clinic in 1976, an older transwoman who made very envious comments about my appearance, later was caught and convicted of multiple insurance fraud scams. It would not be the last time that someone I personally knew would convicted for some crime. Once, a houseguest, someone I was hosting while they healed from SRS before returning to their regular life, took the key to my small airplane, stole it in the middle of the night, crashing it in a hay field when she ran out of fuel. Then there are the depraved animals like Dana Rivers, who in 2016, murdered three people in their own home while staying as a houseguest.

These and other instances are used by transphobic activists to paint transwomen as dangerous monsters. But what is the real truth? In actuality, like non-transsexuals, most people are not such anti-social people. They are good, decent, and law obeying citizens.

Consider the Dhejne study which has been used by transphobes, claiming that it showed that transwomen had the same rate of criminal behavior as men in general, which indeed the paper did verbally suggest.

Male-to-females had a significantly increased risk for crime compared to female controls (aHR 6.6; 95% CI 4.1–10.8) but not compared to males (aHR 0.8; 95% CI 0.5–1.2). This indicates that they retained a male pattern regarding criminality. The same was true regarding violent crime. By contrast, female-to-males had higher crime rates than female controls (aHR 4.1; 95% CI 2.5–6.9) but did not differ from male controls. This indicates a shift to a male pattern regarding criminality and that sex reassignment is coupled to increased crime rate in female-to-males. The same was true regarding violent crime.

My long time readers will know my oft repeated mantra that one should not accept statements of conclusions in papers as facts, but look at the actual data. The data showed that transwomen had a 20% lower crime rate than men. However, given other evidence from other studies, I hypothesized that this was an artifact of failing to differentiate between gynephilic and androphilic transsexuals; that the rate is pulled down by the inclusion of androphilic (homosexual / HSTS) transwomen who have a significantly lower criminal rate.

Why do I say this? Because the data shows that androphilic males exhibit lower physical aggressiveness and criminal behavior, starting in childhood and extending into adulthood than gynephilic males. Further, androphilic (HSTS) transwomen show even lower physical aggressiveness than gay men.

We don’t have good data on androphilic vs. gynephilic transwomen with respect to criminal convictions. But knowing that androphilic transwomen have lower aggressiveness than even gay men, we can extrapolate that they will also have lower criminality. Fortunately, a study came out just days ago which provide solid data on the criminal arrest rates of heterosexuals vs. homosexuals, of both sexes.

To determine the sexual orientation of the subjects, they used marriage records of the Netherlands, which provides for both Opposite Sex (OS) and Same Sex (SS) marriages. Note that straight men have a ~60% higher overall criminal rate than gay men. For violent crime, straight men have essentially double the crime rate as gay men. Admittedly, the gay men still have a much higher rate than straight women. But again, recall, that androphilic transwomen exhibit yet lower physical aggression than even gay men.

Regarding transmen, Dhejne found that they had crime rates much higher that straight women, while van de Weijer found that lesbians also had a higher crime rate, but not nearly as high as Dhejne. This suggests, just with the ‘opposite sex-like shift’ for androphilic transwomen, that transmen are also further shifted to being like the opposite sex than non-transsexual homosexuals of the same natal sex.

Thus, this supports my hypothesis that androphilic transwomen exhibit far lower criminality than straight men… possibly to be near to the low rates as straight women? I look forward to such a study to determine that (provided that the researchers use proper means to determine sexual orientation, given the well documented tendency of gynephilic transwomen to misrepresent one’s sexuality).

Further Reading:

Safety First

References:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dana_Rivers

Dhejne, et al. “Long-Term Follow-Up of Transsexual Persons Undergoing Sex Reassignment Surgery: Cohort Study in Sweden” (2011) https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0016885

Blanchard, R., McConkey, J.G., Roper, V. et al. Measuring physical aggressiveness in heterosexual, homosexual, and transsexual males. Arch Sex Behav 12, 511–524 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01542213

van de Weijer, S.G.A., van Deuren, S. & Boutwell, B.B. Same-Sex Relationships and Criminal Behavior: A Total Population Study in The Netherlands. Arch Sex Behav (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-024-02902-9