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Feminism: Sex and gender discussions

A woman has been found guilty of raping two women

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AngelicaSchuylerAndHerSisters · 24/01/2023 13:23

A woman has been found guilty of raping two women when she was a man. Happened in Scotland. She hasn’t been sentenced yet - but where will she serve her sentence? In the womens prison?!
This is going to mean some serious discussions and tough times for the Scottish government. But it was surely only a matter of time before something like this happened.

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Hoardasurass · 26/01/2023 11:31

I'm glad to say that BBC Scotland news is now showing the before picture and saying that he's in a woman's jail much more neutral reporting now

Wheresthebeach · 26/01/2023 11:32

Sugarfree23 · 26/01/2023 10:58

Remember Sturgeon has only one agenda and that is to be seen as different as possible to England.

Where is she now, has she spoken out to defend her policy ?

No because it doesn't affect her and unlikely to affect her. She is not at risk from him or his type. I bet she never uses a gym with communal changing areas. Shes unlikely ever to end up in an NHS hospital with a man in the bed beside her. She doesn't have kids to worry about in school and girls in the boys or vice versa. She probably has 24hr bodyguards around her.

This is a key point - all these politicians and celebrities supporting this don't have to live in the real world. They aren't using loo's in service stations late at night, aren't in changing rooms in Primark, they are utterly cossetted from the impact of what they are forcing on the rest of us.

IcakethereforeIam · 26/01/2023 11:34

I came across this, Susie McCabe (a comedian? No, me neither) speaking up for the rapist (he's someone's son daughter). She speaks so movingly, you'd have to have a heart of stone, etc.

Anyway an edited clip is posted on twitter. It's all kicked off. She's threatening legal action, claiming the clip has been cut to make it look like she is defending a rapist. Has anyone heard of her or seen the full segment?

twitter.com/ChrisMcEleny/status/1618394343446024192?s=20&t=shcG-AxTadymIYPMkxjCEw

tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 26/01/2023 11:40

FactsAreNotMean · 26/01/2023 08:41

Whilst it is awful for the women who will be forced to deal with the bastard (and I am mot making light of that), this case is excellent from a sunlight perspective.

The timing is spectacular, the imagery is very stark and it's putting people in some very uncomfortable corners. Even those who are fundamentally TWAW can't defend this and for many people it's this kind of thing that will start off the thought process which ends with the realisation that there is no meaningful difference between TW and male. It's a process many of us have worked through.

And for Sturgeon et al, they are in a very difficult place. Only the most hard core believe that this creature belongs in the women's estate and very few are that hard core - most who aren't opposed are more soft "be kinds". It's had massive publicity so large numbers of people are collectively going "what the fuuuuck". But they can't say "this person shouldn't be with women" because it blows a hole in the entire ideology. Because how do you differentiate between this TW and "genuine" TW...

And the longer she takes to do nothing the noisier it gets.

It's quite amusing from a political perspective.

This is a great point because once you acknowledge this shouldn't be happening you have to follow the entire argument to its logical conclusion. Or create more nonsense by deciding there should be some exceptions to TWAW. Which the baying mob won't allow.

Speaking of whom certain vocal posters are notable by their absence in this discussion. Perhaps arguing "this never happens " elsewhere Confused

viques · 26/01/2023 12:00

zen1 · 24/01/2023 13:24

Will this man’s crimes therefore be recorded as being committed by a woman?

See the YouTube compilation Not Our Crimes. It is eye opening.

nilsmousehammer · 26/01/2023 12:16

Speaking of whom certain vocal posters are notable by their absence in this discussion. Perhaps arguing "this never happens " elsewhere

In fairness one has this morning, but it was short and to the effect of saying everyone here is wrong because Reasons, which they won't discuss, so don't bother arguing with them. <And exit.>

MidsomerMurmurs · 26/01/2023 12:25

Oooh breaking news: Nicola Sturgeon says trans rapist will be moved from female prison

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/01/26/isla-bryson-rape-womens-prisons-moved-nicola-sturgeon/

But why not, Nicola? Why shouldn’t this woman be held in a woman’s prison?

purpleboy · 26/01/2023 12:26

www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/01/26/isla-bryson-rape-womens-prisons-moved-nicola-sturgeon/

He is being moved, which is great but the question still remains how the fuck anyone thought it was ok to put him in there in the first place?

ResisterRex · 26/01/2023 12:31

I wonder why the change of heart? Also more here:

twitter.com/ginadavidsonlbc/status/1618580408794218496?s=46&t=7RR9PA8vNE1UDx_ENJOjNA

Sugarfree23 · 26/01/2023 12:37

Nicola has been forced into that move. She couldn't exactly defend him could she.

Hope any other trans are moved too.

Sugarfree23 · 26/01/2023 12:40

tellmewhentheLangshiplandscoz · 26/01/2023 11:40

This is a great point because once you acknowledge this shouldn't be happening you have to follow the entire argument to its logical conclusion. Or create more nonsense by deciding there should be some exceptions to TWAW. Which the baying mob won't allow.

Speaking of whom certain vocal posters are notable by their absence in this discussion. Perhaps arguing "this never happens " elsewhere Confused

Totally agree, once you accept that one trans isn't a woman then it blows your whole argument apart.

Please let the tide keep turning. And punt every trans arsehole out of Cornton Vale and every other place they shouldn't be.

FactsAreNotMean · 26/01/2023 12:42

But Nicola, if it's unacceptable for him to be housed in a woman's prison, why is it acceptable for him to be in ANY woman's space?

I mean, at least the women in prison knew he was a raping bastard - once he's released (probably in single digit years) then he could be in any woman's space and none of us would know.

If he's not safe enough to be in a woman's jail he's not safe enough to be in any women's spaces. And as rapists don't come with giant tattoos women have no way of distinguishing between a convicted rapist in pink leggings, an unconvicted sex abuser in pink leggings, or somebody with crippling dysphoria in pink leggings. So none of them should be in women's single sex spaces.

SenseFromThoughtDivide · 26/01/2023 12:48

The only thing that could make this whole mess worse, is for the prisoner to sue the Scottish government for interference with their rights

IcakethereforeIam · 26/01/2023 12:49

Peter Tatchell being so wrong. Even if you thought his stance had any validity, where is the underfunded prison service going to find the money to indulge this individual's luxury belief. What other services and treatments for the inmates and staff would be cut?

He's trying to be consistent because any other position blows twaw no exception right out of the water.

A woman has been found guilty of raping two women
inkjet · 26/01/2023 12:57

uk.news.yahoo.com/trans-woman-guilty-two-rapes-083709727.html

His wife doesn’t believe his transition is genuine and is concerned for female inmates.

inkjet · 26/01/2023 12:57

Apologies if already posted I haven’t RTFT.

Notaflippinclue · 26/01/2023 13:02

Whahoo this one is off to a male prison just been on the news

Sugarfree23 · 26/01/2023 13:09

@inkjet
I think that's the issue nobody believes he is genuine.
But how do you define genuine?

And how do you stop more Islas men in frocks or pink leggings accessing womans spaces.

It's not my clothes that make me a woman.

Clymene · 26/01/2023 13:14

Right so Sturgeon, who wants self id, doesn't want this bloke to be able to self id.

While I'm enormously sorry for his victims, Adam Graham has perfectly exposed the absolute idiocy of Sturgeon and her policy. I hope this is the end of her political career

inkjet · 26/01/2023 13:19

It’s a good point Sugarfree. I’m with KJK on this - I don’t care if you’ve called yourself Marjorie for 100 years and you wear your testicles as earrings, you shouldn’t be in a women’s prison. I can’t remember the exact quote but it’s close enough.

Namechangedforthisonetoday · 26/01/2023 13:23

Clymene · 26/01/2023 13:14

Right so Sturgeon, who wants self id, doesn't want this bloke to be able to self id.

While I'm enormously sorry for his victims, Adam Graham has perfectly exposed the absolute idiocy of Sturgeon and her policy. I hope this is the end of her political career

Yes you’re right. This whole saga has unveiled this farce for what it really is. As I said the other day, I think that what has made more people take notice this time is the fact that Bryson looks so masculine. The tattoos, the physique - there is no getting away from the fact that Bryson is a male in female clothing. This was rightly picked up by mainstream media as it was so farcical and the result has been NS and her cronies getting an absolute dressing down and NS backpedaling at the speed of light.

As you say, this is just proof that these policies and proposals do not work. They are not fit for purpose and ultimately NS has had to give in and more or less agree that a male wearing womens clothing is still a male, and therefore still a threat in womens spaces. And the crux of this is, NS cannot have it all. She either agrees with self ID or she doesn’t. She can’t step in every time someone looks a bit too masculine to be taken seriously as a woman. So either transwomen are ALL women, or they’re not really women at all.

Clymene · 26/01/2023 13:27

Deputy Chief Constable Malcolm Graham in 2021 said it was vanishingly unlikely www.thetimes.co.uk/article/650a936e-5dc5-11ec-b820-c24889bc184b?shareToken=fd1cb23014069bfc2f6f43e7bf06f135

Deputy Chief Constable Malcolm Graham insisted that Police Scotland had yet to decide how it would respond to a rape suspect with male genitalia asking to be recognised as a woman.

“We have had 1,229 rapes reported to us in the first six months of this year,” he said. “Nearly seven rapes reported every day and there has never been a set of circumstances we have had to do what you have suggested, where we would have somebody who has committed a rape who was biologically a man self-identifying as a woman.

LizzieSiddal · 26/01/2023 13:28

R4 has just been talking to a women’s prison governor called Rhona. She was spectacular

She’s come across many TIMs who have “exposed their male genitalia” in prison and has never come across a TIM in a women’s prison who has had surgery. She said that until this prisoner actively threatens or assaults a women in prison, they will be allowed to associate with women.
She also pointed out that whilst Sturgeon has said this rapist will not stay in this prison, she has not said she will not go to another women’s prison.

Namechangedforthisonetoday · 26/01/2023 13:29

Sugarfree23 · 26/01/2023 12:40

Totally agree, once you accept that one trans isn't a woman then it blows your whole argument apart.

Please let the tide keep turning. And punt every trans arsehole out of Cornton Vale and every other place they shouldn't be.

The tide is turning, the sunlight is coming in and the rose tinted glasses are coming off. New ears have been opened to this. People have been outraged this week, many will have paid no mind to the trans debate prior to Bryson. I think this will open the floodgates now for more MPs and prominent figures to be able to stand up and say what they really think about TWAW, without the use of word salad and doing a metaphorical 100 mile detour around the questions and discussions.

Clymene · 26/01/2023 13:31

And he looks like a right fucking thug too

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