Should a convicted child rapist be barred from receiving some types of award?

This is hideous. It seems that “trans equals free pass”. There certainly seem to be an increasing number of opportunists in the system now - both criminals and their legal advisers.

From the OP
“ In 2017, he was a panelist representing “women’s experiences of incarceration” at Columbia University“

He was a male rapist. If he was treated brutally and raped by men I presume that was in a male prison.

How is he able to advise the panel on women’s incarceration. Where does a male rapist’s experiences represent those of women prisoners?

Even if he became a trans woman and was moved to a woman’s prison, ( I am not clear if this happened) did those women there nominate him to represent them?

MNHQ, if your fingers are hovering over the delete buttons at misgendering posts, please, please don't.

Declaring yourself as trans is almost akin to absolving these criminals of all sins. All is forgiven because 'trans'.

Fucking hell, surely to god people aren't ok with this?

How can this ever be fucking justifies. My heart breaks for that little child, and possibly more victims too.

I hope he rots.

Is he claiming he was torture and raped because of being a transwoman? Not sure about West, but in Eastern Europe rapist and pedophiles have particularly hard time in prison because of the sexual nature of their crimes, so I suspect rape and torture he experienced was an effect of that rather than his gender identity.

It is difficult to be believe this is possible. How are people sane who confer status on someone like this, surely only because they are a trans woman?

No ordinary man who had committed these crimes would be given an award for anything. If Jimmy Saville, say, were still alive, while people knew of his crimes to the extent they are openly recognised now, would we let him get a special award for work on the incarceration of men? Wouldn’t we think he was so very evil that he had no right to speak for other incarcerated men?

What about Mira Hindley? Would we accept her getting an award for speaking on behalf of incarcerated women? I don’t think other women in prison would want that.

And why anyway should this person be getting an award for talking about the incarceration of women? (Or have I misunderstood?)

In answer to you question, maybe someone like this could be worthy of a reward if they expressed regret and sorrow for what they had done and used their ‘expertise’ in toddler sexual abuse to warn parents about safeguarding their children and how to watch out for people like themselves and no doubt other people they knew about.

Xena Grandichelli appears in the Netflix documentary the Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson. About 10 minutes from the end, speaking about justice for transwomen. Presented as a volunteer and activist, totally unproblematic.

Amazing who is seen by this lobby as worthy of a 'platform', and who needs to be cancelled.

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5440153/Trans-convict-invited-speak-House-Lords.html

Motivational speaker??

This person also tries to solicit women for sex on social media. My skin is crawling.

Handwringing! I don't think penmanship the biggest problem here

Actual child rapists.
Over and over again. Apologetics, handwriting excuses, memory holed, and actually feted and centred. Set up as spokespeople of an oppressed minority.
Ordinary decent transpeople better stand up.
If only to get out of the way of the backlash.

Yet again, I’m noticing a lack of input from our regular disputers… where oh where could they be!? Seems a wasted opportunity to defend one of the most marginalised.

Imagine a movement which actively centres child rapists.

And gcs are supposed to be tainted because of accusations of shadowy right wing connections.

LO fuckin L.

It is totally unacceptable to me how a monster like this is given a voice on any platform.
When a human being chooses to abuse a child , the most vulnerable in society, that's it for me,nothing he can say is relevant.
Who cares what experiences they had whilst in prison , they no longer matter ,i wonder if he thought about his vile acts and the terror he inflicted on that poor child when he was on the receiving end , i certainly don't want to hear his explanation .
I absolutely do not care what he went through , the world has gone mad.

So... All hail the brave and stunning sex offender?

Nope. And that this has happened casts a long and dark shadow across any number of organisations that should be seen as beacons of light.

When did such organisations become so blind to what they are actually doing?

And why, after so many u-turns are they still doing such stupid, stupid stuff?

I'm sick. Just sick thinking about this. How could Columbia allow this to get this far?

Interesting too that apparently experiencing life as an abused person has also done little to raise empathy with the person they chose to leave damaged and abused in their wake. Or self awareness of how this is likely to come over to others.

They are different questions really, should this person be barred from certains rewards no. Should this person win that award also no. I just don't think they deserve it but I don't think a ban would be the right answer.

I wonder how often the child this person raped has broken down into tears since the day this person chose to use her?

Should society celebrate a male who chose to destroy a little girl's life in this way? And is very very sorry for self about their suffering during consequences for their choices, but has nothing to say about regret for anything else? And is helping other males to get into spaces where vulnerable women are?

Hell to the no.

Seems quite unsavory.

I can see that awards related to people who are in the prison system are likely to go to people in many cases who have done seriously bad things, and I don't necessarily think that's a problem. But this seems different to me.

An award for a 'community hero', is that correct? For someone who raped a three year old child?