Gearóid Ó Loingsighwriting in Socialist Democracy at the end of January raises issues around the housing of transgender prisoners in women's jails.

Scotland's Scotland has been making the news recently and none of it for good reasons 28 January 2023

Adam Graham (Isla Bryson) was housed in a women's prison after being convicted of two counts of rape.

Sunak stepped in to overrule the Scottish Parliament on its gender recognition legislation, playing a populist agenda on the trans issue, as the Tories are the ones who brought in the Gender Recognition Act in the first place. However, the issue is important.

At the same time as the Scottish PM was busy attacking women’s rights, a number of cases came up in the courts that highlighted the danger and wanton disregard for women’s rights and safety that Sturgeon was demonstrating. The most notable of these cases is that of double rapist Adam Graham, now going by the name of Isla Bryson. He was initially remanded to a women’s prison. The case raised huge concerns and some of the most vocal proponents of the nonsense that Trans Women are Women had to come out and say, that an “exception” should be made this time.

And so it was that Nicola Sturgeon begrudgingly intervened to have Graham (a.k.a Isla Bryson) sent to a male prison.(1) At first though, the Scottish Minister for Justice, Keith Brown, refused to intervene in the case.(2) The retreat by Sturgeon proves what we have always known about the TRAs, they don’t believe their own nonsense. If Graham/Bryson and other transwomen really are women, then he should be in a women’s prison. The fact they are willing to send this one guy back to a male prison tells you everything you need to know about the case. Women are generally sent to prison for less violent crimes and few are imprisoned for sexual offences. But there have been some. The infamous Moors murderer Myra Hindley is one. If a violent woman who represented some degree of potential threat to other female prisoners was sentenced, the prison authorities would take the normal security and preventative measures in relation to that prisoner. The question of sending her to a male prison would just never, ever arise, not in a million years. By sending Graham/Bryson to the male estate, Sturgeon tells us all that we are right, that transwomen are not women, they are men.

This was not the only case, other cases have arisen recently with prisoners boasting they will be in the female estate before the end of the year. And more cases loom. Sturgeon was more than willing to endanger women. Whilst Graham/Bryson was out on bail, in his trans guise but using the name Annie he signed up for a beautician’s course and students at Ayrshire College were unaware that he was awaiting trial for two rapes. He was described by students as over powering and disruptive and was eventually asked to leave the course. But nonetheless they stripped in front of the double rapist with the acquiescence of the college.

We had all kinds of accusations thrown at us in the middle of the classroom. I was being verbally attacked. She went to the head of the department and said we were all discriminating against her and were homophobic. I was really offended and hurt by that and didn’t go to college for three weeks because I was scared of the way she was coming at me.

I didn’t even look at her because if I did, it gave her ammunition to say things to me. The way she spoke to the lecturers was disgusting. She made two of them cry. I found her very forceful and intimidating. Her true self came out during that time.(3)

The College claims that it didn’t know about the rape charges, but that is beside the point. No man would normally be accepted on the course and allowed to see near naked fellow students act as models for spray tanning practice. But if the man says he feels he is a woman, then there is no problem. This is the danger not just of self id, but of accepting the nonsense that transwomen are women and should be treated as such. They are not, they are men in dresses and make-up and should be treated as men at all times.

Sturgeon and her fellow misogynists are not out of the woods just yet. Another transfer to a female prison is on the horizon. Stalker Andew Burns a.k.a Tiffany Scott, who has been described as a dangerous prisoner has repeatedly sought a transfer to the female estate but had been turned down on each occasion. But now the authorities have relented and it is due to go ahead.(4) He is an extremely violent prisoner who once attacked a fellow inmate with a razor and was himself scalded in a revenge attack.(5) And this is the man they want to house with women. Other men are not even safe from him.

Scott is one of only some 100 offenders in Scotland subject to an Order for Lifelong Restriction (OLR), meaning he will only be released when he is no longer considered an "unmanageable risk to public safety".(6) At one stage he changed his name to Mr Almighty and staff were obliged to refer to him as such. On the altar of trans rights women are to be subjected to such men. He has attacked staff and nurses at the prison where he is currently held and women are just expected to be kind and run the risk.

These cases show what utter nonsense and how dangerous this movement is for women and women’s rights. When they first demanded that men be held in the female estate we were told that sexual predators would not ask to be transferred, but they did and it was obvious they would. It is now pretty much open season on women in prisons. Any man can ask to be put in a woman’s prison. The separation of prisoners by age, sex, offence, remand and sentence was one of the great advances in penal reform and now some are willing to roll back history. Housing men in women’s prisons is an attack on women’s right equivalent to the rolling back of Roe v Wade and abortion rights around the world, Taliban attacks on women’s education etc. They are all part of the same attack on women and the imposition of religious dogmas, and that includes the trans religion.

Notes

(1) The Daily Record (26/01/2023) Nicola Sturgeon confirms rapist Isla Bryson will not serve her sentence in women’s prison.

(2) The Daily Record (25/01/2023) SNP justice minister refuses to intervene after trans woman rapist sent to Cornton Vale.

(3) The Daily Record (27/01/2023) Scots beauty students asked to strip in front of transgender rapist Isla Bryson after horror sex attacks.

(4) The Daily Record (28/01/2023) New trans prisoner storm looms for Nicola Sturgeon over transfer of violent stalker Tiffany Scott.

(5) The Daily Record (12/01/2018) Transgender prisoner branded one of Scotland’s most dangerous scalded in revenge for razor attack. 

(6) The Daily Record (30/08/2017) Court put in lockdown as dangerous ‘dirty protest’ transexual appears in dock half naked.

⏩ Gearóid Ó Loingsigh is a political and human rights activist in Latin America.

Scotland’s Prisons And The Rape And Abuse Of Women

Gearóid Ó Loingsighwriting in Socialist Democracy at the end of January raises issues around the housing of transgender prisoners in women's jails.

Scotland's Scotland has been making the news recently and none of it for good reasons 28 January 2023

Adam Graham (Isla Bryson) was housed in a women's prison after being convicted of two counts of rape.

Sunak stepped in to overrule the Scottish Parliament on its gender recognition legislation, playing a populist agenda on the trans issue, as the Tories are the ones who brought in the Gender Recognition Act in the first place. However, the issue is important.

At the same time as the Scottish PM was busy attacking women’s rights, a number of cases came up in the courts that highlighted the danger and wanton disregard for women’s rights and safety that Sturgeon was demonstrating. The most notable of these cases is that of double rapist Adam Graham, now going by the name of Isla Bryson. He was initially remanded to a women’s prison. The case raised huge concerns and some of the most vocal proponents of the nonsense that Trans Women are Women had to come out and say, that an “exception” should be made this time.

And so it was that Nicola Sturgeon begrudgingly intervened to have Graham (a.k.a Isla Bryson) sent to a male prison.(1) At first though, the Scottish Minister for Justice, Keith Brown, refused to intervene in the case.(2) The retreat by Sturgeon proves what we have always known about the TRAs, they don’t believe their own nonsense. If Graham/Bryson and other transwomen really are women, then he should be in a women’s prison. The fact they are willing to send this one guy back to a male prison tells you everything you need to know about the case. Women are generally sent to prison for less violent crimes and few are imprisoned for sexual offences. But there have been some. The infamous Moors murderer Myra Hindley is one. If a violent woman who represented some degree of potential threat to other female prisoners was sentenced, the prison authorities would take the normal security and preventative measures in relation to that prisoner. The question of sending her to a male prison would just never, ever arise, not in a million years. By sending Graham/Bryson to the male estate, Sturgeon tells us all that we are right, that transwomen are not women, they are men.

This was not the only case, other cases have arisen recently with prisoners boasting they will be in the female estate before the end of the year. And more cases loom. Sturgeon was more than willing to endanger women. Whilst Graham/Bryson was out on bail, in his trans guise but using the name Annie he signed up for a beautician’s course and students at Ayrshire College were unaware that he was awaiting trial for two rapes. He was described by students as over powering and disruptive and was eventually asked to leave the course. But nonetheless they stripped in front of the double rapist with the acquiescence of the college.

We had all kinds of accusations thrown at us in the middle of the classroom. I was being verbally attacked. She went to the head of the department and said we were all discriminating against her and were homophobic. I was really offended and hurt by that and didn’t go to college for three weeks because I was scared of the way she was coming at me.

I didn’t even look at her because if I did, it gave her ammunition to say things to me. The way she spoke to the lecturers was disgusting. She made two of them cry. I found her very forceful and intimidating. Her true self came out during that time.(3)

The College claims that it didn’t know about the rape charges, but that is beside the point. No man would normally be accepted on the course and allowed to see near naked fellow students act as models for spray tanning practice. But if the man says he feels he is a woman, then there is no problem. This is the danger not just of self id, but of accepting the nonsense that transwomen are women and should be treated as such. They are not, they are men in dresses and make-up and should be treated as men at all times.

Sturgeon and her fellow misogynists are not out of the woods just yet. Another transfer to a female prison is on the horizon. Stalker Andew Burns a.k.a Tiffany Scott, who has been described as a dangerous prisoner has repeatedly sought a transfer to the female estate but had been turned down on each occasion. But now the authorities have relented and it is due to go ahead.(4) He is an extremely violent prisoner who once attacked a fellow inmate with a razor and was himself scalded in a revenge attack.(5) And this is the man they want to house with women. Other men are not even safe from him.

Scott is one of only some 100 offenders in Scotland subject to an Order for Lifelong Restriction (OLR), meaning he will only be released when he is no longer considered an "unmanageable risk to public safety".(6) At one stage he changed his name to Mr Almighty and staff were obliged to refer to him as such. On the altar of trans rights women are to be subjected to such men. He has attacked staff and nurses at the prison where he is currently held and women are just expected to be kind and run the risk.

These cases show what utter nonsense and how dangerous this movement is for women and women’s rights. When they first demanded that men be held in the female estate we were told that sexual predators would not ask to be transferred, but they did and it was obvious they would. It is now pretty much open season on women in prisons. Any man can ask to be put in a woman’s prison. The separation of prisoners by age, sex, offence, remand and sentence was one of the great advances in penal reform and now some are willing to roll back history. Housing men in women’s prisons is an attack on women’s right equivalent to the rolling back of Roe v Wade and abortion rights around the world, Taliban attacks on women’s education etc. They are all part of the same attack on women and the imposition of religious dogmas, and that includes the trans religion.

Notes

(1) The Daily Record (26/01/2023) Nicola Sturgeon confirms rapist Isla Bryson will not serve her sentence in women’s prison.

(2) The Daily Record (25/01/2023) SNP justice minister refuses to intervene after trans woman rapist sent to Cornton Vale.

(3) The Daily Record (27/01/2023) Scots beauty students asked to strip in front of transgender rapist Isla Bryson after horror sex attacks.

(4) The Daily Record (28/01/2023) New trans prisoner storm looms for Nicola Sturgeon over transfer of violent stalker Tiffany Scott.

(5) The Daily Record (12/01/2018) Transgender prisoner branded one of Scotland’s most dangerous scalded in revenge for razor attack. 

(6) The Daily Record (30/08/2017) Court put in lockdown as dangerous ‘dirty protest’ transexual appears in dock half naked.

⏩ Gearóid Ó Loingsigh is a political and human rights activist in Latin America.

7 comments:

  1. This piece clearly goes where the woketoids fear to tread.

    I don't share the hostility towards the idea that women can become men or vice versa. Science allows all sorts of things to happen and I have a live and let live perspective on it.

    My work brings me into contact with a person who made the transition from woman to man. I simply cannot see him as anything other than he. I would feel deeply uncomfortable trying to relate to him as a woman.

    I know these subjective experiences are not how the rules of biology are laid out but I can see no reason for my friend not to be happy just to keep my prejudice happy were I to have a bias on the matter. Surely, his happiness is much more important than my own.

    The author of this piece has no gripe with the individuals who make the trans but has issues around policy and the persistent pressing by the dictatorship of the woketariat to suppress debate. This is always the way with committees for public safety. But I sometimes think the distinction does not come across as clearly as it should.

    I think the killer line from the piece is where the author suggests the government didn't even believe its own discourse otherwise it would have isolated the rapist within the women's prison rather than sending them back to the male jail.

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  2. I see the Ladies Gaelic Football Association is now welcoming trans women and girls to come to play with them too even though 'transwomen sportspeople have gone through male puberty.

    Those that have gone through that endocrinological process have been shown to have a distinct physical advantage regardless of testosterone level.

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  3. I've seldom seen such a politician as Sturgeon commit the cardinal sin of actually trying to answer a straightforward question and fail so spectacularly. No wonder she resigned. No balls (!)

    There are far more left handed individuals in the world yet the world doesn't bend over backwards to accommodate them. Why should the world partake in a person's mental illness or sexual fantasy just to save their 'feelings'?

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    1. Steve R, I sincerely hope and believe that you are not arguing that no differences should be accommodated in society. Those of us on the neuro diverse spectrums such as the autistic and dyspraxic have bitter lived experience of exclusion from and discrimination in the world of work and health care due to prejudice and misunderstanding from the neurotypical "mainstream".

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    2. it strikes me as odd that this is dismissed as a mental illness. There are probably as many mentally ill trans people proportionally as there are male or female.
      I think the use of terms like phobic and metal illness are an emulation of the old Soviet pathologising of difference or dissent. These are all old rhetorical tricks that were used against the gay community. That is one reason we have religious cranks advocating gay conversion therapy. Anti woke wank is no less wank than woke wank.

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  4. ... and ought an anorexic patient requesting liposuction be accommodated?

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    1. that's the type of question the woketoids want silenced

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