so I very much doubt Susan from beckington will experience the horrendous inconvenience of a man in a dress in her local loo.
In 2018 Katie Dolatowski filmed a 12-year-old-girl who was using a public toilet. A month later, he sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl in the women’s toilets at a supermarket. He grabbed the terrified child by the face, forced her into a cubicle, threatened to stab her and ordered her to take off her clothes. He pleaded guilty to voyeurism and sexual assault charges.
In 2019 Dolatowski was back in court on two separate occasions, accused of deleting the internet history on his phone and then of making <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/nFKm3/www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/courts/866968/sex-offender-who-targeted-young-children-in-fife-supermarket-toilets-given-jail-warning-for-breaching-strict-community-order/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">‘alarming’ internet searches. In 2022 it was revealed that he had been accommodated in a domestic violence refuge for vulnerable women and children after he tricked the centre’s staff by using a false name and pretending to be an abuse victim.
In November 2022 Dolatowski was <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/Xymar/www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/courts/3871936/friday-court-round-up-disablist-slur-and-drugs-cupboard/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">sentenced to four months imprisonment. He was originally incarcerated at Polmont Young Offenders’ Institution. There he ‘battered’ another male inmate. Witnesses saw Dolatowski, who is 6 feet 5 inches tall, “Holding (the victim) over a table and punching him to the back of his head”. Warders ‘escorted’ Dolatowski back to a cell and he was subsequently placed on report. He was then moved to Cornton Vale women’s prison.
Idiots getting their knickers in a twist over an imagined enemy again
Hospital staff advised police that a patient could not have been raped because her alleged attacker was transgender, the House of Lords has been told.
Officers investigating the attack, which allegedly occurred a year ago, were told that “the rape could not have happened” because no male was there.
Neither the hospital nor the investigating police force have been named.
Baroness Nicholson of Winterbourne, who raised the issue during a debate on single-sex wards in hospitals, said: “They forgot that there was CCTV, nurses and observers.
“Nonetheless, it has taken nearly a year for the hospital to agree that there was a male on the ward and, yes, this rape happened.
“During that year she [the victim] has almost come to the edge of a nervous breakdown because being disbelieved about being raped in hospital has been such an appalling shock.
“The hospital, with all its CCTV, has had to admit that the rape happened and that it was committed by a man.”
Police are still investigating the case. Under the legal definition, a rape can only be carried out by a physically intact man.
Nicholson said that the case was a direct result of the NHS policy, known as Annex B, which allows patients to be placed on single-sex wards according to the gender with which they identify.
Speaking in the Lords, she said: “The result of Annex B is that hospital trusts inform ward sisters and nurses that if there is a male, as a trans person, in a female ward, and a female patient or anyone complains, they must be told that it is not true — there is no male there.
“I think it is completely wrong that the National Health Service should be instructing or allowing staff to mislead patients to tell a straightforward lie. It is not acceptable.”
The peer called for the policy to be withdrawn, arguing that it “gives priority to trans people over women” and therefore threatens the “dignity, privacy and safety” of female patients.
The former Tory MP said that the policy “undermines” the provision of single-sex wards and protections for women that “took at least 50 years to come through”.