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From: Bill Sloman <bill.sloman@ieee.org>
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Subject: Re: OT: Cracking Speech by JDV!
Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2025 16:39:16 +1100
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On 20/02/2025 8:19 am, Cursitor Doom wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:01:35 +0000, liz@poppyrecords.invalid.invalid
> (Liz Tuddenham) wrote:
> 
>> Cursitor Doom <cd@notformail.com> wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> There most assuredly *was* at *least* one case where a self-identified
>>> "woman" who was convicted of rape was able to get himself sent to a
>>> women's prison where he had a free hand to prey on as many vulnerable
>>> women as he pleased. Understandly it caused a huge outcry in the press
>>> at the time - and not just among Daily Mail readers. So don't try to
>>> deny it.
>>
>> Yes, something like that did happen.  A rapist who had no history of
>> being trans, but claimed he was trans, was housed for one night in a
>> separate cell within the 'estate' of a womens' prison while they decided
>> what to do with him.  He had no contact with any of the female inmates
>> and the next day was transferred to a mens' prison when they decided his
>> claim was bogus.
>>
>> Don't believe everything you read in the British press.
>>
>>
>>> It's utter lunacy and anyone who attempts to defend it is
>>> likewise mentally-ill.
>>
>> I agree - but you have the wrong target.  It was utter lunacy on the
>> part of the prison authorities who were so stupid they didn't realise
>> what a meal the gutter press would make of it.
> 
> Once again I must disagree. Nothing to do with stupidity/lunacy, but a
> genuine FEAR on the part of the prison authorities that if they didn't
> send this pervert to a women's prison, in accordance with the gender
> he'd declared himself to be, there would be a very expensive and
> damaging court case arising out of it had they been found to have
> violated his human rights. Fear of legal consequences is what enables
> this madness to thrive and the real fault lies with successive
> governments for passing stupid/loony legislation which flies in the
> face of all reason.

The stupid lunacy is entirely in the gutter press, and in people like 
you who like their concocted nonsense to be utterly fatuous.

The prison authorities had a perfectly reasonable fear of the gutter 
press, and they did the bare minimum necessary to cover their backs. 
against them.

<snip>

-- 
Bill Sloman, Sydney