Adam
Graham, 31, aka 'Isla Bryson', is the third Scottish transgender rapist to make
the headlines in the past week. He was found guilty of raping two women with
"her penis" and has been
sent to a specialist unit at the all-female Cornton Vale prison.
Jonathan
Mallon, 40, was sentenced to life in prison in 2014, on a conviction for rape.
He targeted women in changing rooms and restrooms. On January 15, he began to
identify as transgender and sought transfer to a women's prison. He's now begun
to refer to himself as "Charlene", and has allegedly been bragging
that he will be in a women's prison by spring.
Albert
Caballero, 50, abducted and raped his care worker. On January 21, he began to
identify as a "woman", demanding cosmetics and a transfer to a
women's prison. Cabellero, now calls himself "Claire."
Katie
Dalatowski, 22, a transgender serial child sex offender, was sent to Cornton
Vale, after violating the conditions of his sex offender registration. He was
sent to a women's institution, despite his long history of sex attacks against
young girls in public facilities.
While
these individual cases should not be seen as being indicative of the typical
behaviour of transgender men, Home Office Data, does suggest that male sex
offenders may be exploiting transgender rights. The proportion of male-born
trans women in the prison system who are sex offenders, is between 60% and
61.3%. This figure, that was provided in a written answer by justice minister,
Victoria Atkins, to Tim Loughton MP, is far higher than the figure of 18% of
the general population held in male prisons who are jailed for sex offences.
What
these figures might suggest is that men who commit sexual offences are more
likely than others to claim to be transgender. Scotland's First Minister,
Nicola Sturgeon, may well have opened up Pandora's Box with her Gender Reforms
in Scotland if the Bill gets Royal Assent.
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