Transgender met police officer accused of rape

Do that & you will be permanently banned. Ask me how I know.😀

Not to take away from your excellent point about closing loopholes rather than defending your chosen demographic: when I hear about a female sex offender I usually assume they're actually male.

Most of the time that is, in fact, the case.

Maybe start one? I’m tempted to get a Reddit account at this point

Yes this was my first thought as well.

They do occasionally mention a trans criminal over there albeit mostly to minimise their crimes or complain about newspaper bias - recently they have been bemoaning the reporting on the male who says he’s a woman who killed his detransitioner male spouse with a samurai sword.

I find it really odd, when I read about say, a female teacher who has sexually offended against a teenage pupil my instinct is to say ‘Another one? We really need to improve safeguarding in order to prevent offenders from gaining access to potential victims because the current system clearly isn’t working well, perhaps there is a blind spot re: female teachers in secondary schools that specifically needs to be looked at?’

I don’t think ‘Newspapers should stop reporting on these convictions because it makes all women look bad’

shows how child protection and safe guarding is being flush away just so menz feelingz don’t get hurt.

where was the DBS check?

And it is the Met Police again!

Male
Trans identified
Police Office
(alleged)
Online Groomer
Rapist
Paedo

That’s a hell of list of intersecting characteristics - must’ve been incredibly difficult for the victims he targeted to come forward and provide evidence against that dynamic.

(as an aside it’s interesting how many of these trans predators go for a total name change, isn’t it? Most (non trans) people who change a name only change a bit of their original name… I would imagine nonpredatory trans people behave more like the non predatory majority when it comes to name changes? Maybe total name change is something that should be especially flagged for DBS purposes…)

Im not sure most people find a bloke accused of raping a child being called ‘Ms’ in any way ‘dignified’. I hope the judge’s statement at the start was to preclude the defendant/his lawyers whine about witnesses ‘misgendering’ and ‘deadnaming’ him.

They can't because then the whole house of cards would come tumbling down.

You might very well think that.

I wonder whether anyone from the "trans community" or any of its allies would ever be honest enough to give that answer.

I won't hold my breath.

It's simple: Anyone who says they are trans is trans, unless they have done something that would show the trans community in a negative light, then they're just liars.

We keep asking that.

I've yet to see an answer.

How can you tell when somone is "genuinely trans"?

But the judge said that he would refer to him as 'Ms' throughout... in order "to respect his dignity". What nonsense!

The PCSOs are called hobby Bobbys locally.

I am also relieved that, at last, the court is using the correct pronouns for this evil man. We have come a long way since the time a judge refused a rape victim compensation because she had ‘misgendered’ her rapist at trial.

It's quite the list of accusations against him.

Let's not put the trial at risk with too much speculation until the verdict is out.

Good question.

I’d never heard of it, sounds like it was an app made for predators. I’d guess he went through the random connections until he hit on ones with a vulnerability and then exploited it - in this case the ‘gender questioning’ but perhaps also her Christian background.

So who is trans, then?

What are the criteria?

Remember there were TRAs posting that 14 year olds were old enough to know better and should not be infantilised just days ago over the M&S debarcle. They got upset when it was pointed out how creepy this is and how Post Rotherham just wasn't remotely acceptable.

Just saying.

Seems so to me, but that's just my reckon. I suppose it stands to reason that predators who, it's been recognised, gravitate to positions of power that also give them access to victims. They seem also have been insulated from consequences because 'sacred caste'. Add trans-identity to the mix; doubly insulated!, the most sacred of sacred castes. There's also the stats about transwomen prisoners seeming to show they're more likely to be sexual offenders. This guy has got the lot.

Came here to post this. Massive relief to see a rapist being accurately identified as male and referred to using male pronouns. Another little step back into reality.

I think I'm aware of three other transgender police officers/ former police officers who have now been in court for sexual offences. Given the tiny number of transgender POs, surely this is a massively high proportion?

They met on Omegle which I had to Google and learnt that it had closed down amid law suits and safeguarding concerns. I wondered about the testimony referring to shared trauma and thought he had either homed in on a gender questioning child or it was some kind of shared Christian insecurity. Vile whatever and I'm glad it will be getting prominent coverage.

The court artist was brutal.