To think this delusional dirty pervert should stay exactly where he is and starve if that's what he wants?

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There is currently a delightful person on hunger strike because the prison service won't "recognise their gender" and send them to a women's prison.

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Nobody seems to want to mention the fact that they are in fact a sex offender and voyeur who broke into teenage girls bedrooms to wank into their underwear

Why the hell they think they should be in a women's prison is completely beyond me. Anyone able to enlighten me?

Next time I have the cramps from hell I'm sure that the knowledge that I must not really be a woman because my hair isn't straightened will work just as well as Nurofen.

Let the dirty fucker starve, this Country doesn't need another pervy wanker let loose we've got enough already.

Link to an Express article about the offender:

www.express.co.uk/news/uk/102792/Cross-dressing-burglar-is-locked-up

One of his victims tried to commit suicide, and all he's bothered about is make up and hair straighteners?

What demands can non trans make in prison. That is the question now isn't it? Maybe they will all demand trans rights. FGS.

I think the world has gone totally bonkers WRT a tiny segment of our population. Where did it all start?

And babies and kids and women and men are abused daily. Sad isn't it where the priorities lie.

Guardian article has been updated (no note to say so though!) to include the fact that his crimes aren’t just “burglary” but

“repeated burglary, voyeurism, assaulting a police officer and sexual offences including wearing underwear belonging to teenage girls.”

Well, at least they changed it. It’s just possible the author hadn’t done any research and didn’t know?

Still, should put an edit note on there at least.

So they still left out the conviction for possession of child porn then.

Yeah I did notice that. Baby steps eh? Perhaps someone can tweet the author and point out what he missed. After all, it worked just now!

I think I may have reached peak guardian (shame as I find their articles on universal credit etc very interesting). Can anyone recommend a decent alternative?

Imagine his plight, unable to access straighteners OR knickers OR his preferred viewing material. No wonder he can barely choke down a single chip.

I took a vow of Twitter avoidance. Has anyone mocked the journo for the twee awfulness of "plight" yet?

If he's so keen to play suffragette, I assume they're gonna force feed him?

I'm actually chilled to the bone.

Scary that a large media chain would report that a prisoner who poses a risk to woman and children be transferred to a woman's prison.

Totally agree that our justice system is more for criminals than victims. My ds has direct experience if this.
I'm all for rehabilitation. But when it takes priority over everything and nothing is denied because it's a human right it stops being a punitive system.

'Guardian article has been updated to say that he wore underwear belonging to teenage girls' - not that he broke into their houses to wank in their underwear?! There's quite a difference!

The Express article from when he was sentences in 2009 noted that he was also convicted of possession of indecent images of children....

So not even "just" a burglar and voyeur, he's a sodding paedophile as well

Jesus Christ. Where to begin...

Filthy, criminal pervert. Like the rest of them he must be loving the thought of self ID. Being openly able to get into women's changing rooms and toilets to do their dressing up and wanking.

I've nothing against a bit of fetishism- I had a friend, very high profile QC, liked to wear women's knickers in the Old Bailey when defending. It's unlikely he'd throw away his career by openly harassing women but there's plenty more with nothing to lose.

When I was a little girl a man rode past me in the woods wearing a pair of women's knickers on his head, he'd stopped ahead of us to arrange them and then came past on the bicycle. The whole thing was about shocking and probably intimidating my mother and I. My mum must have been terrified he was going to attack us (I was too young to know about rape etc.). Fucker.

I'll support transwomen in women only spaces, when it's clear how we can separate genuine people with gender dysphoria from abusive men. That is, never.

Oh and piss off Guardian.

Hi Chenin, it depends what you are looking for? Newspaper-wise The Times have done the best coverage on trans stuff and seem to really understand and be trying to investigate the issues vs. Pick up on specific things that obviously serve another political agenda.

I think overall the Spectator has a good range of views and has an active editorial policy of trying to widen the debate. So you will see writers on a current political topic who actively disagree with each other appear over a given period of time.

Or I guess there's The Week. They're supposed to report a bit of everything. No idea if there is a bias there, haven't picked it up for years.

MN commenters are famously TERFs in the main so I'm not sure how you expected this thread to go.

Waits for Paris Lees to start a petition

I wonder what his sixty previous convictions were for?

I used to love the Guardian. Then it got all uppity, lost its sense of humour, and became a house magazine for certain viewpoints, rather than a forum for open debate. SUCH a shame.

Sorry, "sixty previous offences", not convictions

The details in local papers from when he was convicted state that he filmed himself in sexual acts in women and girls bedroom whilst wearing their underwear.

Maybe they mean a different solo sexual act to wanking?

Sex offenders shouldn't be allowed to change sex. If you think that makes someone a 'terf', ask yourself why you defend sex offenders over women.

Janice Turner at The Times deserves an award for her determination to be an actual journalist and not an unofficial member of the Nothing To See Here No Sir coverup squad.