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Adrian Harrop also chimes in on Karen White

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ShotsFired · 12/10/2018 15:08

BEHOLD! A MAN HAS SPOKEN!

But, but, but...

  • "transwomen are women", right, Doctor Harrop? [he goes to great lengths to disassociate KW from "real" tw]
  • "this never happens", right, Doctor Harrop? [...er...]
  • "misgendering is literal violence", right, Doctor Harrop? [goes to some lengths to try and avoid using female pronouns where possible]
  • "women are at no greater risk from men", right, Doctor Harrop? [I give up...]

    But full marks to the good Doctor for then turning the entire KW debacle into a diatribe on how "cisgender" women cause the most sexual violence, and tw are at such dreadful risk (higher, naturally). That really is some spinning.

    twitter.com/DrAdrianHarrop/status/1050493604114964480
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seafret · 12/10/2018 15:22

He's a right fucker. That is all I can say. Not going to dignify his bullshit with critique.

FUCK OFF ADRIAN

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DisrespectfulAdultFemale · 12/10/2018 15:25

Harrop is incredibly patronising.

Oh, do fuck off, dear.

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wopbamboo · 12/10/2018 15:25

piss off adrian!

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VickyEadie · 12/10/2018 15:27

Behold a totally misogynist TWAT has spoken, more like.

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hackmum · 12/10/2018 15:29

"most sexual violence in women’s prisons occurs at the hands of cisgender women prisoners, with sexual assaults involving forced cavity searches of women prisoners’ vaginas, in an attempt to retrieve concealed drugs. This represents an act of sexual violence."

Jesus. H. Christ. The man is unbelievable, isn't he? What a vile piece of scum he is.

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birdbandit · 12/10/2018 15:51

Anyone else noticed that the more he shouts, the more people are peaked?

Let the idiot tell the village.

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WhoGivesADamnForAFlakeyBandit · 12/10/2018 16:08

Statistically he's probably right that women are the perpetrators of most violence in women's prisons, because being women's prisons, they should only contain women. I can't fault him for that. It's not like they let men into women's prisons and the men start being violent, is it. That would never happen.

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IStandWithPosie · 12/10/2018 16:11

So what he’s saying is that because there are already women assaulting women in prison that it makes no difference if a man does it so let them in?

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DisrespectfulAdultFemale · 12/10/2018 16:12

Statistically, Harrop would also be correct to say that women are responsible for 100% of the world's births.

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hackmum · 12/10/2018 16:13

Statistically he's probably right that women are the perpetrators of most violence in women's prisons, because being women's prisons, they should only contain women.

Exactly. He then says that male prison guards also commit sexual assaults on women in prison, which only serves to illustrate the point that men pose a risk to women. If the very men who are supposed to be protecting women assault them, how much more of a risk is it to put men convicted of violent offences in with women?

I can never work out whether he's really, really thick or just a deeply nasty individual. I guess the obvious answer is both.

None of this would matter if Harrop was just another twatty TRA typing away from his Mum's basement or from the Goldsmiths student union bar. What absolutely terrifies me is that this man is allowed anywhere near female patients. It feels as if we're being trolled by the NHS.

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TallulahWaitingInTheRain · 12/10/2018 16:15

Shame he didnt bother to look at the actual rates of sexual assault in women's prisons before making his claims. This Howard League independent commission reports the total number of recorded sexual assaults in the female estate in England and Wales to be 6 and 4 in 2012 and 2013 respectively. If these rates are typical, then KW has single-handedly almost doubled them.

howardleague.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Coercive-sex-in-prison.pdf

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happydappy2 · 12/10/2018 16:25

Life's too short to read the whole of that thread. Why is he incapable of understanding that women have valid reasons for fearing male bodied people in their sex segregated spaces? It is impossible to tell the difference between a genuine transwomen and an imposter......& frankly we shouldn't have to be accepting that we are possibly collateral damage, to appease the genuine transwomen.

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VanGoghsDog · 12/10/2018 16:25

Darn it, i managed about three responses before he blocked or reported me (can't get into Twatter now).

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AssassinatedBeauty · 12/10/2018 16:26

He's trying to sound like he gives a shit about women but he actually comes across like he really really doesn't.

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HomeStar · 12/10/2018 17:59

If these rates are typical, then KW has single-handedly almost doubled them.

Not only that, but we have no idea if those five assaults per annum were also committed by transwomen - because no one is recording that statistic separately.

They probably weren’t - presumably the relatively low population of transwomen in women’s prisons outweighs their drastically higher relative propensity to commit sexual assault - but there is something bitterly ironic in how “women do it too” is being used to undermine women’s safety from violent men, when increasingly the violent women being pointed to ARE violent men.

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megletthesecond · 12/10/2018 18:06

yy hack. This "I can never work out whether he's really, really thick or just a deeply nasty individual.".

My previous GP was an asshole . I suspect Harrop is similar.

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FermatsTheorem · 12/10/2018 18:09

I fear the old adage is true: you can't polish a Harrop.

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Badstyley · 12/10/2018 18:28

I’m always tempted to tweet at him, then delete because I just cannot be fucking arsed. Anyway isn’t Posie launching something right about now? That’ll keep him busy for the rest of the evening.

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VanGoghsDog · 12/10/2018 20:40

My Tweets are there, yay!

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Trinity1976 · 12/10/2018 20:58

I often wonder how he managed to get a medical degree.

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DisrespectfulAdultFemale · 12/10/2018 21:04

you can't polish a Harrop.

But bears Harrop in the woods.

True fact.

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DoctorTwo · 12/10/2018 21:40

You can't polish a Harrop

True. But you can roll it in even more shit.

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pennydrew · 12/10/2018 21:42

I wonder what he would do if we all stopped responding to him and talking about him? 🤔

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AncientLights · 12/10/2018 21:46

Karen White has clearly gone to some effort in presenting as female it seems. Did he see the pic of KW? Female? FFS, looked more like Dracula's grandfather.

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BiologyIsReal · 12/10/2018 21:46

Look at it positively. While he is rabbiting on Twitter he's not treating patients and that has to be a good thing, what with him not being able to tell the difference between men and women.

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