A 2013-2017 study of 21 trans-identifying male criminals, of which 13 were sex offenders, found that among the reasons inmates of prisons or other secure facilities might request to transition was to "escape from recognising oneself as a sex offender because 'women don't do that'".
Other men serving long prison sentences may claim to be women in order to get certain benefits.
These conclusions, among others, were described as the "clinical considerations" that staff at such facilities needed to take into account when males, including murderers and other violent criminals, ask to "transition" while at a facility.
The study was conducted by a male NHS specialist and research fellow called Christina Richards at a Nottingham gender clinic (Richards, who is also connected to the infamous Tavistock and Portman gender identity clinic in London, claims to be a woman).
The results were presented in 2017 in Belgrade, Serbia, as part of the "Oral and poster topics" at an EPATH conference (European Professional Association of Transgender Health).
The paper, which richards co-authored with a mental health practitioner called Sarah Murjan, can be found below but does not appear on the authors' listings of published works.
Richards and Murjan found that "some people with significant sexual offending histories have complex reasons for being troubled about their gender which may not be the same as those people who do not have such histories."
"These reasons include, but are not limited to, seeking secondary gain from presenting as trans while serving very long sentences."
The paper is called "Trans and non-binary assessment of forensic patients"
Christina Richards is has written about extreme fetishes, claiming that they are types of sexualities. In the image above he can be seen claiming that only a small number of people with a nappy fetish are paedophiles.
EPATH conference abstract: https://t.co/PRPbaBmPmp
Richards was profiled by REDUXX (npub1vy0…7wrg)'s Genevieve Gluck in in 2022: https://t.co/0kcq0DUcMO Genevieve Gluck (npub1mka…7ffu)
Richards discussing fetishes as "further sexualities" https://t.co/wdb77TxdEq
