Fetishistic transvestitism has been known to be a predictor of serious crimes for decades in the law enforcement field. I follow a female detective on Twitter who talks about this a lot. When she was a baby detective everyone openly talked about this, there were seminars and classes on the topic, hell Silence of the Lambs (who was based on Eddie there) was a hugely popular hit in the 80s/90s.
This lady goes on to say that suddenly no one in the law enforcement field was allowed to even vaguely mention the idea of cross dressing and increased risk of criminal behavior. The whole group of them were pressured from on high to just ignore the decades of evidence and research they had.
I'm not a cop, but based on what we saw in the media for the last decade, I believe her. It matches.
Netflix coming out with this story and the news that Mindhunter is looking to return for season three, which has always been expected to be about BTK (another crossdressing serial killer) makes me even more sure that the pendulum has swung back towards reality. Netflix claims Mindhunter was too expensive to continue, because of the period appropriate costumes, to which I point at Enola Holmes 1&2, both period Sherlock films, for which Millie Bobby Brown was paid $10 million dollars for movie number 2 as executive producer. Yeah. "Too expensive" my fat ass.
I hope they do start talking about it more and more. The truth is not transphobic, it's the truth.