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Rolexeo The difference is that the LGBT community is much smaller and yet organizers, advocates, etc keep getting arrested for this stuff
I wanted to say first that even if the community was smaller, 5 trans cases of child abuse vs 845 religious cases is crazy. The argument that conservatives make is that it's by and large by the LGBT community but religious conservatives actually make up more of the numbers.
But I think the site touches on what you said and that the number of gender non conforming people are actually bigger but still made up a small amount of cases
https://www.whoismakingnews.com/It is not just full time employees or ordained staff. The Bureau of Labor Statistics says there are only approximately 60,000 paid pastors in the United States. But with unpaid pastors religious organizations say the real number is closer to 600,000. That is just under two tenths of one percent of the American population (.0018 of population, to be precise).
We include in our “religious affiliated” total people who are named in the media reports we catalogue as pastors, youth pastors, priests, brothers, nuns, missionaries, bishops, deacons, church officials, Sunday school teachers, teachers in religious schools, etc. We do not include people who are just listed as members of a church.
For those who want per capita comparisons: The transgender population of the United States has been estimated at anywhere from one half of one percent to two percent of the population, with some estimates as high as five percent of GenZ. Even though that is likely a substantial undercount of the transgender population (because many gender non conforming people live in the woodwork) we use the lower estimate, which would put the transgender population at 1,650,000, more than 2 1/2 times the size of the pastor population.
