Jess Bradley - government advisor and suspended NUS Trans Officer. Part iv

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And an article written by Bradley's estranged wife:

www.sarahmcculloch.com/statement-jess-bradley/

Provides a lot of background and confirms that Action for Trans Health received a report of sexual assault and a further six reports of sexual misconduct of Jess Bradley.

This article about Jess Bradley is around seven months old but still has a lot of interesting information and links.
Bradley is a founder and trustee/director of Action forTrans Health, a taxpayer funded organisation.
As a director of that organisation, Bradley was the first to give evidence at the government's "Women's and Equalities committee Transgender Enquiry" - NO WOMEN'S GROUPS WERE INVITED TO TAKE PART IN THE ENQUIRY.
Bradley also set up the Trans Equality Legal Initiative TELI, which uses "strategic litigation" to advance trans rights.
Bradley was on £24K a year at the NUS, so how could they afford to use all these top flight solicitors and barristers?
Our money of course, the NUS has received around £50 million in the last five years according to the Taxpayers Alliance.

transcrimeuk.com/2018/08/02/jess-josh-bradley/

www.teli.org.uk/our-team/

It seems that Jess Bradley's lack of inhibitions go back a while.

www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/art-buff-join-in-the-naked-tea-871089

I realise Bradley is attracted to young men, but if your getting your cock out at the bus stop and in the workplace and not just in private with your preferred adult, consenting, partner, then it has the potential to affect anyone.

Sounds like McCulloch knows exactly who Bradley really is, but has some kind of Stockholm Syndrome that won’t allow her to seperate from the ideology.

Psst, Sarah, you do know that a whole bunch of the terven ones are butch lesbians? Or otherwise GNC women? And loads of us are on the spectrum? Please read what women are actually trying to achieve, rather than just taking on the talking points of Anti Women Activists. We’re coming from a ‘let toys be toys’/fuck stereotypes angle, not a ‘fit precisely in the women box or fuck off’ one.

Intrigued as to who gets married for financial reasons nowadays - visa reasons, sure, but financial? Can’t see how it benefits a childless couple, and the tax allowance is only worth a couple of hundred pounds a year. Unless someone had assets to hide?

There was the 'naked vegan' too they were in the DM

Pythagonal's link seems to work for those having trouble accessing the original. Ta.

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For those who don't want to read the whole thing, the article generally fills in bit of background to stuff we already knew or suspected.

But the thing that struck me about that article was the ongoing investigation within the Proud Trust, an LGBT youth charity in Manchester. Which presumably is for children and young adults.

Worrying.

I read, 'Jess was wrong, but I don't think flashing is illegal, but even so, any TERF pointing out that Jess is wrong and likely a pervert is horrnedous'

The mental gymnastics required is like that used in Fife Council's decision to send a convicted sex offender who offended in women's toilets to a women's hostel. To share a bathroom with women.

Because he offended against girls and not women.

I don't know what marrying for financial reasons looks like either, in this day and age (inheriting when a will has made it conditional on being married??). All quite intriguing, though (probably) irrelevant

The thing that struck me is that lots and lots of people experienced unwanted behaviour from JB, and lots and lots of people missed opportunities to intervene and make clear that JB was out of order. Possibly because of the magical wand of being trans (and therefore never wrong or culpable), though IIRC JB is a relatively recent transitioner

But - unlike some of the MeToo complaints - there aren't streams of people popping up to say that their friend is a wonderful person who wouldn't do the things that have been alleged. There are people saying "yeah, that sounds like an escalation of the behaviour I've from them for many years"

This woman, for whatever reason, is part of the problem.

Says Jess is a liar:

I heard from a third party that Jess was telling people that the blog wasn’t hers and she was the victim of revenge porn by a former partner, which only makes sense if you believe that a former partner managed a public Tumblr with dozens of commenters for four years with only a handful of posts exposing themselves.

Says Jess is a predator:

The report posted by the former ATH committee member that Jess makes inappropriate sexual comments, touches people without their consent, puts people in uncomfortable situations and complains when people do not accept her advances is consistent with our experiences

Demonstrates immediate cognitive dissonance:

I do not have enough information or certainty to say that Jess is or is not a sexual predator

Despite:

ATH had received a complaint from a ATH member that Jess had sexually assaulted them, and they have personally received another three complaints of sexual misconduct as a committee member and a further three after they resigned

She displays a shocking level of denial coupled with total disregard for women and children and no understanding of safeguarding.

please excuse me for the detour but the inconsistency has been ridiculous, I fail to see how a blog which consists entirely of pornographic images and videos of cis men means that trans women are threat to cis women in public spaces)

And what's really concerning is that she is not alone. There are very many people who think this way.

Yes we understand the problem, but so what? STFU.

Threre is a lot of cognitive dissonance, saying one thing with great passion, then saying the opposite.

Also:

By way of public disclosure, I married Jess in 2008 for financial reasons. Our friendship ended messily and we are not on speaking terms

At this point, this scandal is not about Jess Bradley, whom I love deeply but I had to let go because she just couldn’t understand the impact of her actions on others.

It reads like a Victorian novel. It is all about passionately held conflicting emotions. A relationship which has ended but there has been no resolution and letting go.

The mental gymnastics required is like that used in Fife Council's decision to send a convicted sex offender who offended in women's toilets to a women's hostel. To share a bathroom with women.

Is there a thread about this?

Little Jess Bradley behaving badly
Where do you make your cock grow?
On trains, in the park
At your desk, what a lark
Then put it on your blog to show.

failingatlife

"Asked how Dolatowski could pass a risk assessment to live in a women-only hostel having targeted two girls, a council spokeswoman said: “These are women, they weren’t girls.”

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I think the marrying for financial reasons thing (back in 2008) might have been related to student finance. I know there was a difficulty at some point for children of well-off parents whose parents refused to provide them support, who then couldn't get access to the extra funding given to really poor students. Possibly marriage would have changed their status in that regard?????

I was around Jess Bradley for some time in their networks (in the past). The first I heard of all this was a GC out-of-towner mentioning it to me. Nobody in Jess' networks has pulled it up or opened it up for discussion, which is odd since usually this happens with pretty much anybody accused of sexual abuse or harassment in those circles. I can confirm that I was completely unsurprised about it, based off their past behaviour. I never liked to be around them and I said this a few times to people who never asked why it was that I felt so uncomfortable (as they would have with someone they took to be a man). I think that they have a dangerous level of social capital and have wielded queer theory as defence for bad behaviour for a long time.

Btw, the first I heard of it was like a month ago.

This reminds me of Jimmy Savile in that everybody knew but no one liked to say.

There is an extra layer of not wanting to say it if the person is a "family member" i.e. member of same marginalised community where lots of people have been rejected by their own family. There's especially a problem when part of what you need to say is "this person behaves like a male misogynist" when that person says they are a woman and says they are being "sex-positive" rather than a creep. It's really confusing as a young person to challenge this doublethink especially when you will be rejected by your "family" for doing so. I believe that's what was happening and sounds like is still happening.

There's especially a problem when part of what you need to say is "this person behaves like a male misogynist" when that person says they are a woman and says they are being "sex-positive" rather than a creep.

Exactly.

The language is horribly manipulative. And there is so much of it.

SWERF, a complete bloody misnomer, affirmation surgery, assigned a sex, trans discrimination as a replacement word for sexual orientation, transmisogyny, McKinnon's assertion that lesbians should be able to 'cope' with straight sex, the need for women to be 're-educated', etc...

It goes on and on. Sex positive as a term is, yet again, just another means of men getting as many orgasms as they can with women who aren't interested.

TyrrellsFlowers, that's really interesting, thanks for posting. Forgive me if this is unduly personal for you or if I'm wide of the mark but I'm struck by this:

There is an extra layer of not wanting to say it if the person is a "family member" i.e. member of same marginalised community where lots of people have been rejected by their own family.

I've seen a lot of references on Twitter to families disowning people who have declared themselves to be nonbinary or trans. In these cases I always wonder what the family's side of the story would be. I'm sure there are some families where parents are totally unable to accept gender nonconforming behaviour and do break off contact with their child.

However, I strongly suspect in other cases parents break off contact because their child's self-obsessed behaviour is affecting other members of the family or has led them to behave very badly in an unforgivable way. In other cases, I wonder if the child has broken off contact because the parents have not provided the 100% unconditional affirmation of their child's beliefs that the child demanded, but to others this gets spun as 'My family threw me out because I'm trans'.

Bittermints, in many cases (back then at least) it was people cut off due to sexuality. The community was an LGBTQ+ community. In fact, back in those days most people were out as gay before deciding they were actually trans. There is also the extra complication that many people who find those communities - the close knit ones - and are taken in, are abuse victims. There is a very big cross over of abuse victims and trans people I assume because body rejection is a feature of both. It is very complicated and can't just be put down to one thing or another. We were/are talking pretty young people here, and very vulnerable.

That makes sense, TyrellsFlowers. Thanks for answering.

TyrellFlowers - thanks for your helpful contributions

However, I strongly suspect in other cases parents break off contact because their child's self-obsessed behaviour is affecting other members of the family or has led them to behave very badly in an unforgivable way. In other cases, I wonder if the child has broken off contact because the parents have not provided the 100% unconditional affirmation of their child's beliefs that the child demanded, but to others this gets spun as 'My family threw me out because I'm trans'

We have seen this play out in real time with everyone's favourite Labour party Women's Officer. First the comments from the school about also needing to support siblings who were still at the same school; then the various "tonight I came out to my dad as gay" and "no-one loves me, it's hard going it alone" posts; then the "it's so hard when my family deadnames me" stuff - and all along posting photos that are clearly taken in their childhood bedroom, implying that they are still very much welcome at home but have caused a rift that is incredibly difficult to repair (particularly when so much is played out on social media)

There are many reasons to criticise the person in question but being in the same house as somebody doesn't mean you are welcome and if this person did have trouble with their family then saying they caused the problem is victim blaming unless there is evidence that the person was unfairly or falsely accusing a family who were supportive but questioning gender ideology or who were genuinely struggling. It is very hard to know what goes on behind closed doors. Just trying to be fair on this issue, though I appreciate that they are highly problematic in other ways.

I won't derail this thread with LM and their family, but yeah, LM has done many things over the years that would be hurtful to their family (though of course, families are a complicated dynamic and rarely completely a one-way street)