Now seeking transfer
First, a news item from the Toronto Star August 21 [warning: graphic violence]:
Rhoderie Estrada went to sleep likely around 10 p.m. after folding laundry, watching Korean dramas and putting her three young daughters to bed in their two-storey East York home.
In the early hours of May 26, 2018, her husband came home to a nightmare — Estrada lying bloodied on their bed with head injuries too severe for him to perform CPR.
Now, after five days of deliberations, a jury has found Yostin Murillo and David Beak guilty of the first-degree murder and sexual assault of Estrada, a 41-year-old long-time dialysis nurse at St. Joseph’s hospital who adored — and was fiercely protective — of her children.
Fast forward to September 28:
One of a duo convicted of bludgeoning a woman to death after breaking and entering her home, robbing and raping her is now seeking transfer to a women’s prison. Fearing the inmate’s pattern of repeat violent criminality may be a barrier, transgender activists are protesting as discriminatory a clause in the prison policy that allows male convicts to be denied transfer to women’s prison if deemed a health or security risk.
Yes because obviously the tender feelings of a man who raped and beat a woman to death are far more important than the fears of women who will be forced to share prison space with him.
Also obviously he’s definitely sincere about Feeling Like A Woman Inside and not at all using the policy of putting men in women’s prisons if they say they are trans as a way to get away from other men and at vulnerable women.
Do people forget what discrimination means? It means nothing more than choosing. There is unjustified choosing but there is also justified choosing. In this case, men are barred entry to women’s prison, because the prison is for women and not men. Obviously, that goes double for men with a history of violence against women.
I wonder if they even realise that in some contexts, ‘discriminating’ can be a compliment.
Holy shit. Murillo is certainly a piece of work. From the first Star item:
This is who they’re siding with? Holy shit. Again. From the second Star piece:
Oblivious to the fact that the inherent strength advantage a male body confers is agreater threat to women who are inmates, and female staff, than any woman would represent.
Refreshingly, the Star even offers some helpful translation for the unitiated:
Woops. Didn’t notice that the second link is not to a Toronto Star story, but to a post on “Women are Human.”
So, not the Star giving the translation noted above. I thought it was too good (and snarkish) to be true.