Miriam Cates is on Politics Live today, 25 January.

KJK on GB News discussing the Scottish rapist:

Paulette Hamilton came across very badly.

Labour MP Paulette Hamilton on the "gentleman". That's what she said. Gentleman.

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Well, that just says it all, doesn't it?

Muppets is #beingkind, but shows how they've been played.

Revealed: Scotland has more transgender prisoners in women's prisons than England and Wales combined as it emerges half of the inmates only began transitioning after they were convicted

What a bunch of shameful muppets these people are.

Isn't even one of them saying, oh, I wonder how long it will take for the entire male criminal community to identify as women now?

It's going to go one of two ways, isn't it? Either they start to tighten up the criteria, which will be almost impossible in the teeth of transactivism, or every single prison will become mixed sex.

I'm guessing the latter.

They would rather sacrifice the safety of every single female prisoner, rather than upset one male criminal.

I suspect me and miriam have some political differences, but she is very good on this, really knows her stuff and is so good at explaining the point.

I wonder if she walks among us?

She's not a QC (KC these days). She married a v prominent commercial barrister who went on to take silk and then became a HC judge and Court of Appeal judge. She practised for 20 years or so but never took silk.

Latest on that "most vulnerable group"

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11674903/Scotland-female-transgender-prisoners-womens-prisons-UK.html

Revealed: Scotland has more transgender prisoners in women's prisons than England and Wales combined as it emerges half of the inmates only began transitioning after they were convicted

"The number of female transgender prisoners placed in women's prisons in Scotland has surpassed England and Wales after rapist Isla Bryson was convicted yesterday, MailOnline believes.

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According to a recent report published by the Scottish Prison Service (SPS), there were 11 trans women and five trans men in Scottish prisons at the end of June 2022.
Of the 11 trans women, six were held in men's prisons and five were held in women's prisons. If the figures remain the same today, Bryson and Dolatowski would take that to seven trans women in women's prisons – more than the six in England and Wales cited in a recent Ministry of Justice report.

Of the five trans men in Scottish jails, who were born female, one was held in a men's prison and four were held in women's prisons last year.

Bryson, who was Adam Graham when carrying out the violent sex attacks in 2016 and 2019, began transitioning after being charged by police. New figures emerged today revealing eight other male and female trans criminals in Scotland did the same after being convicted or remanded in custody."

Perhaps he is trans vulnerable. Either that or the word vulnerable doesn’t mean what it used to mean and the OED hasn’t got round to updating yet.

David Blunkett is immune to the trappings of Gender. He isn't distracted by blue hair, lipstick and handbags. He knows what a woman is, regardless of the make up preferences.

She's really good. She knows what's going on, and she can think on her feet.

If she ever reads this, Miriam, next time someone tries to narrow the definition of what kind of man, exactly, would you find acceptable in a woman's space, you can point out that it is the women in those spaces who that man is using.

It's the women's presence that makes the space desirable for him. They are being employed in the service of his self image.

And it's not just a self image that is detrimental to women everywhere, but now the very people for whom is detrimental are expected to validate it!

If all the women left the space in question and went elsewhere, he would no longer want to be in it.

And their new space would become the focus of his desire.

It's the women who are being used here. Any 'space' being talked about, is just a proxy for using women.

So the answer to what criteria is acceptable for a man to meet, in order to use women, is absolutely fucking none.

I also wonder what the impact of only hearing trans individuals speak may be - however convincing they are visually, they can never change their voices, can they?

MoirasSaggyBundles · Today 15:19

That's depressingly well put.

GettingMarriedAgain · Today 15:07

Also has anyone ever provided evidence that ‘both sides’ behave in a shouty uncivilised way? Emily Thornbury is always wanging on about both sides.

No, they simply think that constant repetition makes it true and they know that most people won't investigate it. There's an argument, people see that, then mostly turn off / tune out a bit and believe someone who's given airtime.

Arf! 😁That is exactly it!

Miriam Cates is a superhero on this.

It's the only thing they've got. It's the only thing they ever had. And it only worked, because most people didn't know anyone who was trans. They weren't in the papers, or in your face, or your changing room.

And, as we all know, it was a deliberately engineered narrative.

Which is now falling apart.

i'm just assuming that these people are taking longer to catch up than others. Journalists and MPs alike.

And yes, the question needs to be asked. Which one is most vulnerable again? The rapists in women's prisons? The sports cheats? Or the spitting, threatening, shouting bullies?

My low opinion of ET only confirmed. Mind you, I don't find Blunkett much of a hero either. Where are the decent voices in Labour who see this gaslighting for what it is?

Also has anyone ever provided evidence that ‘both sides’ behave in a shouty uncivilised way? Emily Thornbury is always wanging on about both sides. It’s very tiresome