Leeds - sex offender transwomen allowed in womens shelter

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Of course he was a convicted nonce to boot.

www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/politics/sex-offender-stayed-in-leeds-womens-refuge-for-71-days-as-campaigners-protest-leeds-council-over-scandal-3920683

Yes, and after we had finished our protest we got home and found out Dolatowski is in a women’s prison for battering a male in the male prison.

There is another thread running here: www.mumsnet.com/talk/womens_rights/4658331-katie-dolatowski-up-in-court-again?page=5&reply=121587761

What is it about Leeds?

Leeds, MPs - captured, Councillors - captured (with honourable exceptions) Home to Mermaids, and theTavistock second centre. Woke university professors .

Agree, also agree that there are some very honourable exceptions - they are helping push through for answers and reassurances. Today, Leeds ReSisters brought some long overdue local focus to the issue, it had been ignored locally until today (who knows why, but it stinks of something). We just need to keep on, people can’t keep nodding along with the madness indefinitely without defending their position. Honestly, who can defend a convicted paedophile in a women and children’s refuge, let alone those in power!

The effects of grooming and abusers persist for a long time. Jimmy Savile was from Leeds. Thousands lined the streets for his funeral, at the time.

And yet it was an “ open secret “ in Leeds that he was, I quote a friend of mine from the area, “ a dirty old man that we were told to stay well away from”

And he told me that more than 30 years ago.

Thanks, Leeds ReSisters.

Nik Peasgood, Chief Executive of Leeds Womens Aid, said: “We are appalled that someone with such crimes could come to a women’s refuge using a different identity. We are aware that a criminal using authenticated identification could access any housing provider’s services, and we are not unique in being manipulated in this way.

FFS what a pathetic excuse. Katie is 6ft 5in and a quick glance would leave you in no doubt about Katie's sex. If the refuge had a policy which placed women's safety before men's feelings then no amount of "authenticated identification" would put them at risk.

FFS what a pathetic excuse. Katie is 6ft 5in and a quick glance would leave you in no doubt about Katie's sex. If the refuge had a policy which placed women's safety before men's feelings then no amount of "authenticated identification" would put them at risk.

Yes, this. Why the tortuous contortions, to include an obvious male with sex offender conviction, into what should be women's single-sex spaces?

Someone looked at that man, but gave the order that he be accommodated as a women.

What? Why? Who said, "Yes, we must accommodate this person. Come on in."

Who was the person/were the people who flagged this male sex offender into a women's refuge?

We need to know their names.