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Andrew Miller/Amy George thread 2

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ArabellaScott · 18/10/2023 13:05

'Defence advocate Victoria Dow told the court that Miller "recognises and feels the horror of his conduct" and was said to feel an "enduring sense of shame".
Miller was also said to have expressed concern over how his behaviour would affect the wider trans community.'

https://news.sky.com/story/andrew-miller-jailed-for-20-years-for-abducting-and-sexually-assaulting-girl-in-scottish-borders-12983829

Following on from previous thread.

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4737858-girl-abducted-in-galashiels-appears-to-have-been-held-by-transwoman

Andrew Miller jailed for 20 years for abducting and sexually assaulting girl in Scottish Borders

Andrew Miller, also known as Amy George, identifies as a transgender woman and is said to be in the process of transitioning. The judge previously described the "abhorrent crimes" against the girl as the "realisation of every parent's worst nightmare"...

https://news.sky.com/story/andrew-miller-jailed-for-20-years-for-abducting-and-sexually-assaulting-girl-in-scottish-borders-12983829

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medianewbie · 20/10/2023 14:58

Not only has AM dressed & posed as a woman for some time (long enough to 'qualify' under current Scottish Rules), but AM posted on local FB (as 'amy george') about Westminster interfering in Scottish Gender Policy (basically telling them to keep noses out). It struck me at the time as quite combative.

@TaytoCheeseandOnion You make excellent points.
AM absolutely considers himself a spokesperson for Trans people in Scotland.
If I were part of that group I'd want to disassociate myself sharpish.

TaytoCheeseandOnion · 20/10/2023 12:47

See, heres the thing. The vast vast majority of the trans community are not predators. But they have created an umbrella that gives predators shelter. There are two main groups to be concerned about. Criminals with rapid onset trans identity in the face of prosecution, and men with fetishes and parafilias, known to be risk factors for sexual offending, claiming a trans identity.

The whole edifice of gender ideology is totally dependent on the denial of reality and the suspension of disbelief. So, to prevent the whole thing coming tumbling down, the trans community accept these men and views the risks they pose to women and children as simply collateral damage. There have been too many crystal clear examples of the dangers of gender ideology for them to plead ignorance. They will not talk about or seek to manage the predators under their rainbow umbrella, and shout bigot at anyone who does.

It really is time for the trans community to have a serious conversation about this.

Chersfrozenface · 20/10/2023 12:41

This is from the STV news site on 18th May this year. Another media outlet rather than court records, but it backs up the BBC paragraph

"The court was told that Miller was in the process of transitioning to female but chose to be identified by his birth name.

"On social media, Miller also goes by Amy George and described himself as the owner of the Millers of Melrose butchers."

QuashMe · 20/10/2023 12:21

Many thanks again @JanesLittleGirl and @Chersfrozenface . That's really helpful.

JanesLittleGirl · 20/10/2023 12:12

QuashMe · 20/10/2023 12:02

@MotherEarthisaTerf and @JanesLittleGirl - thank you very much. What a horrendous summing up :(
I think I might be missing the crucial element somewhere - does it state that he "identified" as a woman/trans in general prior to this crime? I know it says he wants to "protect the trans community", but is there an explicit statement that he considered himself trans/a woman?

The only reference is:

"I note that you are recorded by the risk assessor as talking in detail about your desire to limit the impact of your offending on what is referred to as the wider trans community."

There is a clear implication that AM regards himself as a member of that community.

Chersfrozenface · 20/10/2023 12:10

QuashMe · 20/10/2023 12:02

@MotherEarthisaTerf and @JanesLittleGirl - thank you very much. What a horrendous summing up :(
I think I might be missing the crucial element somewhere - does it state that he "identified" as a woman/trans in general prior to this crime? I know it says he wants to "protect the trans community", but is there an explicit statement that he considered himself trans/a woman?

In the BBC News story it says
"In May, the court was told that Miller identifies as transgender and in the process of transitioning to female."

So I presume that would be in the records of the May hearing, if they are available to the public.

QuashMe · 20/10/2023 12:02

@MotherEarthisaTerf and @JanesLittleGirl - thank you very much. What a horrendous summing up :(
I think I might be missing the crucial element somewhere - does it state that he "identified" as a woman/trans in general prior to this crime? I know it says he wants to "protect the trans community", but is there an explicit statement that he considered himself trans/a woman?

MotherEarthisaTerf · 20/10/2023 11:36

QuashMe · 20/10/2023 11:22

@ArabellaScott sorry to ask - I'm sure you and others will have said, but I can't find it right now... do you know where I can find the best evidence to cite for this? Important to something at work meeting... TIA

The judges summing up is available online. Trigger warning though Sad

JanesLittleGirl · 20/10/2023 11:33

QuashMe · 20/10/2023 11:22

@ArabellaScott sorry to ask - I'm sure you and others will have said, but I can't find it right now... do you know where I can find the best evidence to cite for this? Important to something at work meeting... TIA

judiciary.scot/home/sentences-judgments/sentences-and-opinions/2023/10/18/hma-v-andrew-miller

EdgeK · 20/10/2023 11:29

Ah sod it.
F*ck the 'trans community' he's so concerned about. No outrage on social media, no trans organisations making a statement, India Willyboy oddly silent. No words about the victims suffering. Nothing.
Silence is complicity.

QuashMe · 20/10/2023 11:22

ArabellaScott · 18/10/2023 13:12

His 'trans' status was central to his identity for many years, related to his fetishes, and a key factor in the abduction, according to the judge.

@ArabellaScott sorry to ask - I'm sure you and others will have said, but I can't find it right now... do you know where I can find the best evidence to cite for this? Important to something at work meeting... TIA

MavisMcMinty · 19/10/2023 14:26

They don’t care about women and girls. They say they can’t use the men’s loos because men are so horribly dangerous, but don’t understand or respect that yes, exactly, that’s why we don’t want men in our loos, thanks.

It’s such a selfish, blinkered mentality.

ZoeCM · 19/10/2023 13:57

' I note that you are recorded by the risk assessor as talking in detail about your desire to limit the impact of your offending on what is referred to as the wider trans community. By way of contrast, however, the assessor reports that, during her discussions with you, you appeared to deflect from the harm your sexual assaults have caused to your victim. You denied that any harm had come to her during her days as your captive, and, while you used the term “inappropriate”, you avoided the use of the word “harm”. You even appeared to place the responsibility for your offending onto your victim.'

You know, it really does seem to me that for all that trans women insist they are women, they don't seem to feel much solidarity with "cis" women and girls. This guy is capable of empathy, or he wouldn't be worried about the impact of his actions on other trans people. It's just that he doesn't extend that sympathy to the "cis" girl he assaulted.

MassiveWordSalad · 19/10/2023 13:32

It's Eddie Izzard's girl/boy mode used for the most nefarious of purposes. The fact that certain elements of the press are kowtowing to Miller's wishes for "the wider trans community" is absolutely disgusting.

MassiveWordSalad · 19/10/2023 13:23

MavisMcMinty · 18/10/2023 20:15

I’m seriously doubting this skunk of a man had any plans to ever let that poor child go. Thank goodness she was resourceful enough to call for help, I shudder to think of how far Miller might have gone.

Yes I thought that too Mavis. He gives off Buffalo Bill vibes. Thank god that poor girl had the bravery to call for help.

catduckgoose · 19/10/2023 13:13

ANewCreation · 19/10/2023 11:58

I keep thinking about the poor little girl thinking she was safe getting in the car with a woman.

It reminds me of this study where the reasons for why certain people did not make it through the assessment process for gender reassignment were revealed. The link with paedophilia is noted in the academic literature.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-psychiatrist/article/gender-reassignment-5-years-of-referrals-in-oxfordshire/6B5F217162ABD9B3189F2EB82787034E
"Reasons for non-referral to a specialist centre included being deemed not ready for transitioning (either determined by the individual or because the person was not currently living in the desired gender role), being homosexual but not having gender identity disorder, having an autism-spectrum disorder with a significant degree of impairment such that the real-life experience criterion was not met, and seeking gender reassignment to facilitate or normalise paedophilia. This latter small group described gender reassignment as a means by which to increase their intimate contact with children, which they viewed to be more socially acceptable in a female role.

Of course, self-ID would mean all these men would be handwaved through.

That is shocking, I wonder how many got through the 'gender reassignment' process while keeping this paedophilic motivation quiet.

I remember reading an article from Ray Blanchard where he said that he encountered many autogynephiliacs who would lie about the fetishistic motivation on the basis that they would be excluded from transitioning if they told the truth.

ANewCreation · 19/10/2023 11:58

I keep thinking about the poor little girl thinking she was safe getting in the car with a woman.

It reminds me of this study where the reasons for why certain people did not make it through the assessment process for gender reassignment were revealed. The link with paedophilia is noted in the academic literature.

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-psychiatrist/article/gender-reassignment-5-years-of-referrals-in-oxfordshire/6B5F217162ABD9B3189F2EB82787034E
"Reasons for non-referral to a specialist centre included being deemed not ready for transitioning (either determined by the individual or because the person was not currently living in the desired gender role), being homosexual but not having gender identity disorder, having an autism-spectrum disorder with a significant degree of impairment such that the real-life experience criterion was not met, and seeking gender reassignment to facilitate or normalise paedophilia. This latter small group described gender reassignment as a means by which to increase their intimate contact with children, which they viewed to be more socially acceptable in a female role.

Of course, self-ID would mean all these men would be handwaved through.

Gender reassignment: 5 years of referrals in Oxfordshire | The Psychiatrist | Cambridge Core

Gender reassignment: 5 years of referrals in Oxfordshire - Volume 35 Issue 9

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-psychiatrist/article/gender-reassignment-5-years-of-referrals-in-oxfordshire/6B5F217162ABD9B3189F2EB82787034E

LadyBevvy · 19/10/2023 10:59

ArabellaScott · 18/10/2023 13:58

I would say that arguments about GRA and self ID are limited with regards to this case.

It may have an impact on which prison he goes to, of course.

But the wider question, of how women and girls are shamed into ignoring boundaries, questioning their own instinctive responses, and overcoming uneasiness is something we also need to look at.

Crossdressing disorder is a paraphilia. A fetish.

'Transvestism is a form of fetishism (the clothing is the fetish), which is a type of paraphilia in its most extreme forms. In transvestism (cross-dressing), men prefer to wear women’s clothing, or, far less commonly, women prefer to wear men's clothing. This may be because women have a broader range of clothing considered consistent with gender. However, they do not have an inner sense of belonging to the opposite sex or wish to change their sex, as do some people with severe gender dysphoria. However, men who cross-dress may have feelings of gender dysphoria when they are under stress or experience a loss.'

https://www.msdmanuals.com/home/mental-health-disorders/paraphilias-and-paraphilic-disorders/transvestic-disorder

I am aware that even raising this issue risks my comments being targeted for reporting, and this may be deleted.

What does that tell us?

Not only this, but a significant proportion of known sadistic murderers are known to have gotten sexual satisfaction from cross-dressing, a fetish which, for these individuals, accelerated into actual violence.

Peter Sutcliffe, Ed Gein, Haddon Clark, Henry Lee Lucas, Edward Cole, Russell Williams, Jerry Brudos, to name a few.

Ray Blanchard has written about this link.

When JK Rowling published Troubled Blood, a number of the woke bien pensant raised an outcry, in numerous think pieces, claiming that making a link between serial killing and cross dressing was transphobic.

In fact the link between transvestite paraphilias and the apparent propensity of a minority of cross dressers to sexual and/or homicidal violence must be further explored as a matter of urgency.

littlbrowndog · 19/10/2023 10:58

But aren’t cross dressing men in Scotland protected under hate crime bill ?

that poor wee girl. How brave she was to get away.

he really planned that with his hidden room

SNP really emboldened this man. And yes I think he would have been put into women’s jail if the whole Bryson thing hadn’t been exposed

Kucinghitam · 19/10/2023 10:09

I think it says it all that this individual is more concerned about "harming the speshul community's fragrant reputation" than about the actual harm he inflicted on his poor victim.

And I also think it says it all about the Right Side of History media and useful idiots, who have exactly the same priorities.

ArabellaScott · 18/10/2023 23:10

NotBadConsidering · 18/10/2023 21:46

There's a certain hypocrisy to the BBC and Guardian describing him as 'a man dressed as a woman' in their attempts to minimise the trans aspect

It’s not hypocrisy, it’s pure malevolence: a determination to protect abusive men and their own journalistic reputations. They don’t care about women and girls.

By now, I guess this is sunk costs fallacy. They probably can't even admit to themselves how bad its got.

But we see it.

Enabling, excusing and minimising.

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NotBadConsidering · 18/10/2023 21:46

There's a certain hypocrisy to the BBC and Guardian describing him as 'a man dressed as a woman' in their attempts to minimise the trans aspect

It’s not hypocrisy, it’s pure malevolence: a determination to protect abusive men and their own journalistic reputations. They don’t care about women and girls.

medianewbie · 18/10/2023 21:39

PaperWalkAndTalk · 18/10/2023 21:06

The guy is despicable and the crimes are too.

But unlike the other trans sex offenders (who suddenly identify as trans after being charged) he had cross-dressed for years and it is ironic that the media use male pronouns and his male name for the reporting.

But then again he is concerned for the trans community (a shame he wasn't concerned for that poor girl) and it is his request that the media refer to him as male. The media are obliging to his requests.

HIs 'concern' for the Trans community (rather than his victim) is just more 'look at me' braggadocio. He is allowed to decide which name & gender he is sentenced under. Quelle surprise, after years of 'Amy George' he is now Andrew Miller again. So, when he formally 'transitions' inside jail (to get into a female jail) he can then come out with a new 'female' identity. He is STILL calling the shots.

SinnerBoy · 18/10/2023 21:34

catduckgoose · Today 14:13

This doesn't seem to be unusual amongst men with this paraphilia, on the trans forums there are so many men confessing to stealing clothes and particularly intimate garments from their sisters or mothers.

I don't think it's confession, I think it's bragging.

DuesToTheDirt · 18/10/2023 21:21

I don't much care whether he is trans or not.

What I do care about is the insanity whereby women (and girls, of course) are forced to accept men into women-only spaces simply on their say-so. It is no longer acceptable for us to say to the gym receptionist, "There is a man with his dick out in the changing rooms, please sort it out." Or, at the supermarket, "There is a man in the women's toilets." Or, "There is a man masturbating in the women's showers."

Women across the country (the world, in fact) are nasty transphobic bigots if we dare to say such things. These perverts are women, obviously, and we are the ones in the wrong.