Beauty students asked to strip in front of trans rapist at college AFTER sex attacks

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My AIBU title taken from this news article:

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/beauty-students-asked-strip-front-29063499

This whole 'Isla Bryson' cluster-fuck has me angrier than I can describe.

These girls had to accept and trust this vile individual in their beauty course on the basis of Isla's claim to be a woman, nothing more. They even tolerated abuse from Isla.

They were not told this individual was facing charges of rape. The college claim they didn't know either. Because 'Isla' said he was a women, these young women felt they had no choice but to strip to virtually naked in front of him. Failing to do so would be 'bigoted'.

But he also happens to be a serial rapist. Young women, some possibly aged 16 or so, stripping to virtually naked while a serial rapist watches. If this was my daughter I would be going mad.

Where is the safeguarding?

AIBU to feel viscerally angry with all our politicians about this?

It doesn't matter if they knew there were rape charges or not. The UK stance presumed innocent until proven guilty means the college would not have be able to bar him from the course for charges.
They dropped their safeguarding because he was posing as a 'woman'.

We need safeguards in place, we cannot have a scenario where men in dresses can access women and girls spaces unless they are a convicted Rapist.
Are we going to get them tattooed or branded across the face 'rapist'?

Re the wee girl in the Borders, really glad they have found her alive. What a hellish time for her and family.

And well seens it's another trans that's been charged.

I'm not the most religious in the box, but it almost feels like their has been the hand of God in the timing of all this. Or maybe it's just coincidence.

How on earth does their not knowing he was a rapist change the fact that he is a rapist?

How does it change the fact that he is a man and everyone knew it?

You lot have such a strange relationship with the truth. And the only purpose seems to be to throw vulnerable women under the bus for the benefit of men and rapists.

I know I can't expect a truthful or honest answer out of you, but I'd love to know why that is. Why is colluding in a lie more important than safeguarding against predators? How many rapes are an acceptable price to you?

How on earth does their not knowing he was a rapist change the fact that he is a rapist?

The college didn't know how was a Rapist, he was only found guilty after the trial, which was after he'd been on (and asked to leave) the course.

Women's spaces need to be protected. We cannot have a 3rd category of people, Men, Women and Rapist!

The college didn't know how was a Rapist, he was only found guilty after the trial, which was after he'd been on (and asked to leave) the course.

Yes, but that poster is trying to claim that the college didn't force them to undress in front of a rapist because it didn't know he was a rapist. But he was a rapist. Not knowing it doesn't change that fact.

And then, funnily enough, it was still OK to make them undress in front of a man when everyone did know he was a man.

Their weird relationship with truth isn't even consistent. It isn't true if we didn't know it. But if we do know it, it's still not true.

What are these people smoking?

And it's closing eyes to the fact that every single man is Schrodinger's Rapist.

This is why single sex spaces.

And this is why no category of men can be exempted.

no category of men can be exempted

This! We never know which man is capable of rape, or child abuse. And sometimes their crimes escalate over time, ie be happy with watching for a while, before wanting more at a later point in time.