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Yet another rapist

74 replies

EntirelyUnnecessary · 21/09/2026 17:08

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c60e32dydp9wo

James Groves "who also goes by the name of April"

What a brave victim and good to see accurate reporting at least

A mugshot of James Groves who has long blonde hair

Bristol sex offender jailed for 'calculated' abuse of girl

The victim, who was praised for her "exceptional bravery", said she lost her childhood due to the abuse.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c60e32dydp9wo

OP posts:
MarcTheGenderSkeptic · 22/09/2026 10:38

solerolover · 21/09/2026 18:57

Exactly this, it's very obvious what @TransParentlyAnnoyed is trying to do here.

TransParent thinks that kids know their gender at 5.
Maybe this rapist knew he was female at 5.
What do you think, TransParent?

TheyAreLovelyLovelyPeople · 22/09/2026 10:39

BEAchDays2 · 22/09/2026 07:00

Just FYI I know this case, he didn’t identify as a woman until the trial.

Ah. Prison Onset Gender Dysphoria.

His poor victim. She is very brave.

MarcTheGenderSkeptic · 22/09/2026 10:46

TheyAreLovelyLovelyPeople · 22/09/2026 10:39

Ah. Prison Onset Gender Dysphoria.

His poor victim. She is very brave.

Some trial experiences result in the perp coming clean and confessing the truth.
Some trial experiences result in the perp doubling down on their lying.
Some trial experiences result in the perp lying on a whole other level.
And here we are, legal minds, some of the most qualified people, waving thru this whole other level of lying, allowing the perp to gaslight the court, and more importantly, humiliate his victim on a whole other level, beyond the huge pain she's already carrying.

akkakk · 22/09/2026 11:07

TheyAreLovelyLovelyPeople · 22/09/2026 10:39

Ah. Prison Onset Gender Dysphoria.

His poor victim. She is very brave.

Can I suggest

Prison Impending, Gender Selection

a more appropriate acronym?

After all there is no actual gender dysphoria in someone who is only selecting a 'gender' to avoid being put in with all the other chaps who might not appreciate his crime, and act out similar with him as the victim...

and gender dysphoria is a genuine mental health illness which needs compassion, whereas I suspect that not many will feel compassion for this man, or his rapid choice of a different 'gender' to benefit himself...

GailBlancheViola · 22/09/2026 11:31

Men pretending to be women are liars. When people lie to your face about something that is blatantly untrue, they are telling you so many things about themselves, and one of those things is that they have no concern for your discomfort, that they expect you to go along with that lie,

Not just expectation they want to force adherence to the lie, they demand acquiesence.

lcakethereforeIam · 22/09/2026 11:56

Although, at the moment at least, men who claim to be trans don't get put into female prisons there may still be advantages for they/them. I believe they're not required to share cells and they can still mix with female prisoners. They're just segregated at night and (hopefully) they're no longer permitted in the female showers.

At least the single room seems to be the thing in Scotland, not sure if it's the same in England and Wales. The mixing was taking place at Downview(?) I think it's still the case but I'd love to be wrong.

@TransParentlyAnnoyed please come back with the results of your complaint to the Beeb about how publishing names and pictures of criminals is retraumatising their victims. I'm sure you have complained to them, and all the other outlets. After all you're not a massive hypocrite.

Wishesandhorses · 22/09/2026 13:01

So the most important thing about this poor girl's rape is that women don't say things that might sway public opinion against men forcing their way into women's single sex spaces and removing women's consent to say no.

Riiiiiiight. Think that ship's sailed frankly.

It's a bit grim to see the girl further weaponised as a means to try and silence women from pointing out the bloody obvious. Would anyone here be keen to share a single sex space with and get undressed in front of this particular man? He is a man with a gender identity. He is no different to any other man with a gender identity. Some of them are sex offenders. (Some of them are vegetarians. Some of them have blue eyes.) That a male population inevitably contains sex offenders is just one the reasons women have single sex spaces.

GreyskySexRealistsky · 22/09/2026 13:05

It's a bit grim to see the girl further weaponised as a means to try and silence women from pointing out the bloody obvious.

This.

GailBlancheViola · 22/09/2026 13:36

Wishesandhorses · 22/09/2026 13:01

So the most important thing about this poor girl's rape is that women don't say things that might sway public opinion against men forcing their way into women's single sex spaces and removing women's consent to say no.

Riiiiiiight. Think that ship's sailed frankly.

It's a bit grim to see the girl further weaponised as a means to try and silence women from pointing out the bloody obvious. Would anyone here be keen to share a single sex space with and get undressed in front of this particular man? He is a man with a gender identity. He is no different to any other man with a gender identity. Some of them are sex offenders. (Some of them are vegetarians. Some of them have blue eyes.) That a male population inevitably contains sex offenders is just one the reasons women have single sex spaces.

Yes, what say you @TransParentlyAnnoyed ? Want this man with a gender identity to have full and unfettered access to all female single sex spaces and services? If not, why not?

Manyanamanyana · 22/09/2026 13:38

Think an angry TRA is having posts blocked. My post recieved quite a lot of support before it was blocked, but I guess it was too close to the bone for our resident educator.

Manyanamanyana · 22/09/2026 13:44

BEAchDays2 · 22/09/2026 08:37

It’s utterly wild that when somebody commits a sex crime as a man, the fact that they then decide to identify as a woman would let them into a woman’s prison. Thank God that bullshit seems to be in the past. (I hope)

Not in Australia 😒

GreyskySexRealistsky · 22/09/2026 13:44

Manyanamanyana · 22/09/2026 13:38

Think an angry TRA is having posts blocked. My post recieved quite a lot of support before it was blocked, but I guess it was too close to the bone for our resident educator.

There are always 👀on these threads and they are not necessarily the posters that comment.
Some people really don't like women talking on a feminist board.
Can you rephrase what you said in a way that won't get the censors involved?

@RogueFemale too, FYI

Edited to add: Ah, I think I've just remembered what RogueFemale wrote and I'm amazed it lasted that long! 😆

AlwaysExtraHot · 22/09/2026 13:51

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 22/09/2026 01:25

I've made it really clear how I feel, as a victim myself.

Leave survivors alone. They don't need strangers dredging the details of their ordeals or weaponising their trauma.

There is a huge difference between being horrified at this news, and gleefully seizing on it as 'evidence' that trans women are all deviants.

Really telling that when women try to talk about how cis men have destroyed our lives, we get shouted down and told 'not all men'.

The only time we're ever allowed to discuss male aggression is in a transphobic context. Otherwise, we get rape and death threats.

There is a huge difference between being horrified at this news, and gleefully seizing on it as 'evidence' that trans women are all deviants.
Who has said trans women are all deviants?
What I see on this thread is people pointing out the discrepancy between TRA rhetoric about all trans women being kind gentle souls and the reality that they still offend at the rate of other males.
And that this man, however he identifies, doesn't belong in a women's prison.
And that we're cautiously pleased that he's not skewing the rape statistics by being recorded as female.

Boiledbeetle · 22/09/2026 13:56

GreyskySexRealistsky · 22/09/2026 13:44

There are always 👀on these threads and they are not necessarily the posters that comment.
Some people really don't like women talking on a feminist board.
Can you rephrase what you said in a way that won't get the censors involved?

@RogueFemale too, FYI

Edited to add: Ah, I think I've just remembered what RogueFemale wrote and I'm amazed it lasted that long! 😆

Edited

I believe copulation and away synonyms were used.

Boiledbeetle · 22/09/2026 14:03

AlwaysExtraHot · 22/09/2026 13:51

There is a huge difference between being horrified at this news, and gleefully seizing on it as 'evidence' that trans women are all deviants.
Who has said trans women are all deviants?
What I see on this thread is people pointing out the discrepancy between TRA rhetoric about all trans women being kind gentle souls and the reality that they still offend at the rate of other males.
And that this man, however he identifies, doesn't belong in a women's prison.
And that we're cautiously pleased that he's not skewing the rape statistics by being recorded as female.

I only see one poster on this thread who appears to be acting gleefully. And that's the poster who is gleefully using it as yet another opportunity to tell us what awful individuals we are for daring to point out that yet again the thing that apparently never happens has indeed bloody happened again.

RogueFemale · 22/09/2026 19:54

GreyskySexRealistsky · 22/09/2026 13:44

There are always 👀on these threads and they are not necessarily the posters that comment.
Some people really don't like women talking on a feminist board.
Can you rephrase what you said in a way that won't get the censors involved?

@RogueFemale too, FYI

Edited to add: Ah, I think I've just remembered what RogueFemale wrote and I'm amazed it lasted that long! 😆

Edited

You remembered correctly.

solerolover · 22/09/2026 20:08

TransParentlyAnnoyed · 22/09/2026 01:25

I've made it really clear how I feel, as a victim myself.

Leave survivors alone. They don't need strangers dredging the details of their ordeals or weaponising their trauma.

There is a huge difference between being horrified at this news, and gleefully seizing on it as 'evidence' that trans women are all deviants.

Really telling that when women try to talk about how cis men have destroyed our lives, we get shouted down and told 'not all men'.

The only time we're ever allowed to discuss male aggression is in a transphobic context. Otherwise, we get rape and death threats.

Your comments are, as usual, inflammatory, nonsensical and utterly dismissive of the women on this board.

Ractify · 24/09/2026 12:02

solerolover · 22/09/2026 20:08

Your comments are, as usual, inflammatory, nonsensical and utterly dismissive of the women on this board.

Yes - TPA (TRA) makes many comments that are Truthphobic. (If “cis” and “transphobic” keep being used, I will use my description of those who demand acquiescence to untrue GI Ideology dictates).

LeftieRightsHoarder · 24/09/2026 13:38

implying that trans women are inherently sexually violent.

Prison statistics show that trans-identifying men are more often convicted of sexual assault than other men. Most people can understand that men carrying out sex-fetish behaviour in public (including wearing women’s clothes) are more likely to go on to commit sex offences.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 24/09/2026 14:25

I can't off-hand recall which sex TPA's putative trans child was said to be attempting to move from, but I wonder how happy TPA would be for TPA's child and this lying, fantasist/opportunist, obviously male rapist to have to share space for any length of time.

(The transchild hasn't been mentioned for a while, as far as I remember, so I thought I'd just do so. Since TPA has yet again hijacked a thread to make it all about TPA and not about a victim or her rapist, I might as well.)

DabOfPistachio · 24/09/2026 14:40

I thought one of the reasons that rapists' faces and crimes are publicised is that it makes it easier for other potential victims to come forward. IIRC that was certainly the case with John Warboys.

lcakethereforeIam · 24/09/2026 14:48

As many criminals seem to change name, at least I read articles where the perpetrator is described as having several known aliases, a photo can be invaluable in alerting other victims. This is possibly doubley valuable with trans identifying criminals as news sources, and even the Police, can be remarkably squeamish about reporting names the person went by in their biological sex.

AskingQuestionsAllTheTime · 24/09/2026 15:00

DabOfPistachio · 24/09/2026 14:40

I thought one of the reasons that rapists' faces and crimes are publicised is that it makes it easier for other potential victims to come forward. IIRC that was certainly the case with John Warboys.

That is certainly what I have understood. And it is claimed by rapists and paedophiles to be very unfair for possible rapists or paedophiles to have their names and pictures published, lest people leap on the bandwagon and make spurious claims against them.

This can happen, of course. There was a time when Paul Gambaccini felt quite strongly about that. He was never charged with any offence, but was kept on bail for well over a year in what he described as a "flypaper" operation by the Metropolitan Police, who subsequently had to pay him for loss of earnings as a result of their action. Yes, I remember when gays were targetted in this way: Cliff Richard was another who had clearly done nothing whatever to deserve being hounded as he was.

In general, though, making a rapist known makes it likely he doesn't get away with offences that he was not originally charged with.

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