Transgender rapist who first appeared in court as a man named Adam with a face tattoo before changing gender ahead of trial for attacking two women – as she is sent to a women’s prison

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  3. The SNP voted down an amendment to prevent rape defendants from legally changing their sex before trial.

    To help avoid this exact sort of defence advanced by defence barrister in this case, that this now-convicted male rapist shouldn’t be seen as a “predatory man”.

  4. I don’t understand if you had gender dysphoria, why you would wear a pair of leggings which would so obviously display your penis.

    While I don’t think this prisoner could reasonably be housed in the general population of a male prison – I don’t think the solution is putting them in a women’s prison. Particularly given their history of sexually assaulting women.

  7. So to be clear the decision as to whether they’ll serve their sentence in a women’s prison hasn’t actually been made yet and it has nothing to do with the recent bill despite this article strongly implying that both of these things are true, quality journalism from the Daily Mail as usual.

  8. Why do these niche issues and cases always seem to be the ones brought up around trans issues?

    Obviously this person should not be incarcerated with potential victims, but this is a very small minority of the trans community and their issues. Same with sports and the weird bathroom attack hypotheticals people bring up. How does this justify limiting the rights of all trans people? Serious question for those who think it does.

    Also presumably there are cis men who raped men who are also imprisoned with potential victims but that never seems to be brought up ever. We should be addressing the issues of safety in prison for all inmates, not making this a trans specific issue imo.

  9. Two points for thought:

    1) Its logically inconsistent to condemn or suspect all trans people after one commits a crime if you wouldn’t also e.g. suspect *all* men after one commits a crime

    2) A gay male rapist would be sent to a men’s prison and a female sexual assaulter of women would be sent to a women’s prison. It’s reductive to reduce the category of sexual assault to one kind only.

  10. I mean this is an outlier case and hopefully nobody takes this as any sort of “gotcha” towards trans people. That being said, this is Reddit.

  11. Baffles me that the conversation is around how to distribute trans people in prison and not how to make prisons safer for everyone

  13. > with a face tattoo

    I always find the Mail’s priorities fascinating. Would this have been more acceptable if the rapist in question had no face tattoos?

    Hell, leading with “transgender”, would it be okay to put this person in shared prison accommodation with women if they were an AFAB person who had assaulted two women?

    The MSM seem only be concerned with the possibility of assaults occuring in prison, when they can use it to fearmonger about trans people

  14. Brace for seeing more stories like this spun to contribute to the transphobic side of the culture war.

    You have shitty people in every group, and you’re right that SOME people may abuse the new GRC laws in Scotland.

    These abuses are, however, not a reason to rob all trans people of their human rights to equality and decency.

  15. I don’t even believe they’re trans.

    Rapists are by nature cruel, manipulative and opportunistic. Unfortunately the majority of male at birth prisoners that identify as trans are sexual predators. I believe that these evil and cruel people are lying in order to continue their careers of abuse, their chosen lifestyle is “scum of the earth” and they’ll do anything to keep it up. If it was possible for peodophiles to identify as children and be sent to young offenders institutes they would be doing that too.

  16. Should we not just have a unit in a prison somewhere for people who pose these types of problems? As has been pointed out elsewhere in the thread, I am not sure that women who sexually abuse women, or men who sexually abuse men should be in prisons with their preferred gender of victim either.

    It’s not like there are so many, so surely a prison wing here and there can be devoted to them?

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