Yellow posted... I don't really even know where our disagreements lie,
Mostly in the thought process of "men are more likely to sexually abuse children, therefore I'd never hire a male babysitter." Specifically:
- The level of uncertainty inherent in sexual assault statistics and especially in statistics about the gender distribution of perpetrators means you cannot quantify that difference conclusively enough to decide whether or not it's significant. In turn, this means those statistics are not a sufficiently conclusive basis to make that decision, which in turn means you should not make that decision unless you have a more conclusive basis
- Across the board, discriminating against all members of a population based on the actions of a tiny subset of the population is a bad thing, even if you can conclusively identify a statistically significant difference in risk level. It causes considerable harm and does significantly less to mitigate the issues you're worried about than pretty much any other countermeasure would