This speech was made by Anne Ruzylo last year, she discusses vulnerable female prisoners, from her experience of having worked in prisons.
It is worthwhile specifically comparing her perspective with Lily Madigan's recent response to a male born prisoner being charged with sexually assaulting four female prisoners as discussed
here
Anne Ruzylo also describes being personally targetted by activists in the talk:
November 2017 Times Article:
'Lily Madigan: I’m a transgender teen agitator; I make an ideal Labour women’s officer. Born male, Lily Madigan is at the heart of the battle raging over the question of gender identity. She talks about the row she sparked in her own party'
(extract)
You may see Lily Madigan as a crusader or you may see her as a troublemaker, but sitting in a branch of Costa in Rochester, Kent, her jeans ripped and hair dyed a dirty pink, she looks like a teenager trying to pretend everything is OK.
Last week it emerged that the transgender art student, who is only 19, had been elected “women’s officer” for her local Labour Party in Rochester and Strood, months after she lodged a complaint against a “transphobic” feminist, Anne Ruzylo, who held the same post in another constituency.
Ruzylo later stood down, prompting the party’s executive committee to quit in solidarity. The sequence of events makes it look a lot as though Madigan, who was born male, forced a woman out of a post representing women, only to snap up a matching job herself.
Madigan is doing her best to appear absolutely fine with the fallout. “I’m always happy,” she says, though her wobbling chin suggests otherwise. Her friends, who are trying to protect her from the worst of the abuse, have banned her from looking at her social media accounts. And she admits she has had to involve the police. “I know there’s a lot of people inciting violence against me on social media. My friends have reported it,” she says.
It is a murky little story from the murkiest circles of local Labour Party politics and no one emerges looking good. Madigan says she made a complaint against Ruzylo in September because she had “heard she had made some transphobic comments” and wanted the local executive committee to look into them. (continues)
concludes:
It’s in the Labour Party that Madigan has found a home. I ask when she started to care about politics and she answers: “Jeremy Corbyn.” She joined the party after the election, has met most of her friends through it and shows me a video of Corbyn answering a question from her at Labour’s youth policy conference. Raising Corbyn’s terrible track record with women’s rights is pointless because Madigan is evangelical. She wants to be the first transgender MP.
How, at 19, can she have enough experience to represent the interests of women in the constituency? “I’m good at trans rights and student rights,” she says. “I did a lot of work around stopping the council here shutting Sure Start centres; I’ve been speaking to victims of rape recently.”
As women’s officer she will need to represent the views of all the women in the party, including those who, like Ruzylo, fear the consequences of the GRA. “I definitely think everyone’s opinion is valid,” she says, “but some opinions are a bit ignorant and we can educate them.”
www.thetimes.co.uk/article/lily-madigan-im-a-transgender-teen-agitator-imake-an-ideal-labour-womens-officer