Transgender prisoner “identifies as a baby”

If they genuinely do accept this person as a baby, then they should most definitely not be locked up in prison. Or in fact allowed to make any decisions that would naturally require a parent to make on their behalf.

If they do accept that this person is old enough to be tried and convicted of a crime and imprisoned for it - and indeed then go on to commit a further murder - then they most clearly are not a baby, and need to be treated and held accountable for everything as an adult.

It cannot be both.

Why are these people being allowed to make a laughing stock of the authorities? A big fat NO would suffice and he needs putting in men's jail.
See if he suddenly "grows up to adulthood"

Is his self-identifying as a baby (male or female?) a twisted appropriation of 'vulnerability' - how unkind we are thinking about taking a baby away from all the kind ladies in Corton Vale and locking the baby up with nasty men!

Let's just ignore that this 'baby' is a violent, murderous man capable of strangling to death another human being with a shoelace. Should this man not be in a mens' secure psychiatric unit instead? How fucking dare they think they can dump him in a womens' prison - let's look at all the robust and rigorous decision- making that led to this and name names.

I'm glad to see this appalling situation is still in the media spotlight.

Does Cornton Vale have a mother and baby unit? Is this separate from the main (female) accommodation? And exclusive to actual mothers with actual babies?

I do recall in the distant past seeing something on TV about a mother and baby unit, it was presented as being quite a beneficial/therapeutic place (under the circumstances of imprisonment).
I haven't heard anything about these for a long time and have no idea if they even exist any more, or what the set up might consist of.

The more these horrific decisions are publicised the better, they each make the public question the trans issue more and I believe will damage the TWAW campaign.

Its really sad that a right wing rag like the Daily Mail seems to be the main source of these stories.

Its leaving the issue open to be hi-jacked by the extreme right, as part of their anti-woke 'family value' lies, and will be incorporated into their vile racist, pro-life, homophobic and anti-semetic beliefs.

I think its really a feminist and anti-homophobic issue and I think it should sit better with the Left of centre, but the left are all so keen to be seen to be inclusive and accepting of this nonsense.

Every day there's something else.
Baby (his new identitywhich of course I will abide by) should have stayed in the segregation unit of the male prison.
Why is it we never hear anything about Trans Men, but it's non stop about Trans Women?

every quotation from Eastwood makes it abundantly clear that it’s all about Eastwood and how Eastwood feels.

I, I, I. Me, me, me.

You could be a criminal mastermind!

Is it extreme chutzpah, severe delusion or pure narcissism?

Possibly all three, but the thing is that one would expect all of that among the population.

One just doesn't expect policy to be based on accommodating these delusions, lies, or manipulations.

I can't get passed the point that someone who killed another by strangling them with a shoe lace "fears they will not survive". She didn't do too bad at surviving the first time as a male in a male prison.

And he's presenting himself as the face of vulnerable prisoners? He took a shoe lace and used it to end his cellmate's life.

Yes, indeed.

"I believe I'm in the right place and don't think I could survive in the male estate."

Well, considering that your male cell-mate couldn't survive in the male estate, as a direct result of your actions, it's not really helping to paint you as a special vulnerable case, now, is it? What is it with these people? Is it extreme chutzpah, severe delusion or pure narcissism?

How is this violent man in a woman’s prison

scotland. Unbelievable

Quite unusual for a baby to strangle a grown man to death with a shoelace I’ll grant you

in fact this might be the only case I’ve ever heard of

but he really, really enjoys role playing as a baby, so he definitely is one 👍

Thats one hell of a strong baby.

They referred to Cornton Vale as 'Scotland's only all-female jail', yet the whole article clearly gives the lie to this.

Also a very interesting quote: "I have no history of gender violence", when you have strangled somebody with a shoelace. 'Yes, I am an extremely violent murderer; but I don't do gender violence.'

He strangled a man to death with a shoe lace.

And he's presenting himself as the face of vulnerable prisoners? He took a shoe lace and used it to end his cellmate's life.

If they are a baby they shouldn't be in prison at all, they are below the age of criminal responsibility. They should appeal their conviction.

That would shine some light on the situation

If he really is this divorced from reality, he should be in a secure hospital where he can get treatment. But I doubt that he is, he is just trying to access vulnerable women to victimise.

Sadly I think it will take a prison officer to be killed by a man pretending to be a woman before these crazy policies are revoked.

They won't care if a woman prisoner gets killed, because they are not seen as worthy of consideration anyway.

It’s totally logical

if a man who enjoys role playing as a woman is literally a woman, then a man who enjoys role playing as a baby is literally a baby. He can’t be expected to eat solid food, not until he cuts some teeth.

oh, he has some teeth? Well he also has a dick and he’s still a woman. Get with the programme!

look I don’t make the rules. I suggest you take it up with Judith Butler

Maybe next week he will identify as a cat and request a move to an animal hospital.

If this was reported as "prisoner pretends to be a baby" or "prisoner role plays as a baby" or "prisoner believes that he is a baby" or similar then it would be very obvious that this person is either mentally ill, or trying to game the system.

"Identifying as a baby" is not any kind of identity that needs accepting or being automatically kind about. As previously said, it's either a mental illness, a sexual fetish or an affectation.

Why there's no wider public disapproval of this person being in a women's prison is puzzling.

I'd be more interested to know what SPS and Humza Yousaf's criteria are, given that they apparently consider Eastwood to be genuine enough to be housed in Cornton Vale, but Bryson not genuine.

I'd be interested to know what are his criteria for being considered a genuine trans person?

I think he needs to think it through a bit more, he could identify as a prison guard and ask to be given the keys, or identify as an innocent person and demand to be set free 🤷

Bit more on Eastwood:

'In 2008 Eastwood, then 23, was given an extra 10 months for a violent attack in which he punched a male prison guard several times, reportedly while on a rare break from a specialist segregation unit, indicating the prisoners’ unsuitability to be housed in the general population.'

'In 2016, a female prison officer employed by G4S was forced to resign after Eastwood used information he had gathered on her life and her family to intimidate her while she was escorting him on a hospital visit.'

'May 2018*

Eastwood was reportedly moved to HMP Polmont after what the media euphemistically call being “openly intimate in front of others” while outside and “letting things all hang out” i.e. having public sex with fellow trans-identified male murderer Alan Baker/Alex Stewart in HMP Greenock.'

'April 2022*

The Daily Record reports that Eastwood has “told the prison governor at Polmont jail that she [sic] wants to identify as a baby, wear nappies and have meals blended like baby food” and also demanded that prison officers hold her [sic] hand when she [sic] is escorted from her cell.”'

transcrimeuk.com/2018/02/13/daniel-eastwood/