Transcript of interview:
"I'm Ceri-Lee Galvin. I'm from Wales. Well, the United Kingdom. In 2015, my biological dad was arrested for - at first, it was indecent images that the police found on his computer. From interviewing me, and a lot of pushing and persuading, I opened up to them about nine and a half years of sexual abuse that I ... that I had from him.
My father had targeted me, groomed me, and sexually abused me for as much of my childhood as I can remember. He took indecent images of me, naked images of me, and posted them online, shared them with other paedophiles.
From that, he was sentenced to ten and a half years, and four and a half years extended, by the judge in 2016 for the prolonged abuse that I suffered.
In early 2022, I had a phone call from my Victim Liason Officer, just out of the blue, I had no warning that the phone call was coming - and she informed me that he was now identifying as female and had changed his name to Claire Fox. Therefore, he was segregated from other male prisoners.
It ... it just doesn't make sense. It doesn't add up. This violent man, who had no shame in his genitalia before, when he was abusing me for many years, was now saying that he was a female? And I was to just accept that?
And it infuriated me, because I just thought, why should I have to accept that the man who sexually abused me with his own body, as a male, now was segregated from other prisoners after an altercation and was telling me that he was female? Yeah ... the shock is still there, to be honest. It's still ... it's confusing, if ... if nothing else, to be honest, as to where this has come from.
This was an extremely violent, egotistical man. He was violent, he was aggressive, he was ... and that was just in life anyway, that wasn't even just within the abuse that I received as a child. I was severely neglected by him.
And ... yeah ... I still can't comprehend it now, I still can't understand it. And, obviously I'm being told by these professionals to accept it and to understand it, but they ... they didn't see the nine and a half years of him being this masculine man that I endured. And to try and accept that is difficult, to say the least, really."
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