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By Sean Rayment, February 2024 "More than 70 per cent of transgender prisoners in British jails are serving sentences for sex offences and violent crimes, government figures have revealed. At least 181 of the 244 transgender inmates, more than 74 per cent, are in jail for crimes including rape, forcing under-age children into having sex, grievous bodily harm and robbery. Up to 144 transgender women, men who identify as females, are housed in male prisons while five are currently imprisoned in female jails - including at least one top-security institution where murderers and terrorists are being detained. The high levels of violent crimes among male prisoners who identify as women demonstrates why they should not be detained in female prisons, women’s rights campaigners argue. Campaigners and former prison chiefs, however, were insistent that the high level of violent crimes among trans prisoners did not imply that they were inherently violent, adding that the vast majority lived c...

JK Rowling Says "I'm Sick Of This S---" After Transgender Cat Killer Is Called A Woman February 27th 2024. The Telegraph  JK Rowling has criticised a transgender cat killer who murdered a stranger being described as a woman as it emerged judges have been told to refer to defendants by the pronouns they want. Scarlet Blake, a 26-year-old who was born male but identifies as female, was sentenced to life in prison with a 24-year minimum term at Oxford Crown Court on Monday for murdering a stranger. Blake was referred to as a woman throughout the trial and in some media reports.  Rowling, who has been vocal about her gender-critical beliefs and views on transgender issues, spoke out after Sky News described Blake as a woman. Sharing a video on Twitter, the Harry Potter author wrote: “I’m sick of this s---. This is not a woman. These are #NotOurCrimes.” Murderer Scarlet Blake It comes as it emerged that guidance for judges tells them to “respect” the gender identity of those w...

Tough Crowd by Graham Linehan review — memoirs of a monomaniac The Father Ted creator is a comedy genius but his vituperative advocacy for women’s rights does more harm than good. By Janice Turner Graham Linehan created the beloved comedy Father Ted JUDE EDGINTON FOR THE TIMES Janice Turner Friday October 13 2023, 12.01am BST, The Times W hatever online grief I’ve had in six years reporting on the medical transition of children, or rapists in women’s jails, I know that the slightest criticism of Graham Linehan will earn me far more. Ironic really, given that the first objective of what has evolved into the gender critical movement was to defy Stonewall’s mantra “no debate”. But to some, the beloved comedy genius who created  Father Ted  and sacrificed everything — career, wealth, reputation, marriage, even sanity — to champion women’s rights against trans ideology is Gender Jesus. For the (mainly) women in academia, the arts or public sector who were bullied or sacked simply f...

  RADI JANICE TURNER I’ll use whatever pronouns I think courteous new Women battling the group-think of Stonewall have become as militant about language and it does their cause no good Janice Turner Friday February 09 2024, 9.00pm GMT, The Times W hether Brianna Ghey’s mother, Esther, was in the Commons gallery for prime minister’s questions is irrelevant. Even if her poor vulnerable child had not been murdered, this was no way for Rishi Sunak to speak. Navigating a political course between trans and women’s rights is delicate and serious, not the source of cheap zingers when you’re desperate for a win. Did Sir Keir Starmer make political capital too by using Esther Ghey’s grief to parry Sunak’s dig about him being unable to define a woman? Maybe. But he at least reminded us what is increasingly lost in this toxic debate: it concerns real lives. Perhaps the PM thought he could reprise his “a man is a man, a woman is a woman” line that won  wild Tory conference applause. His in...