The big switcheroo
On Wednesday, at a US Senate judiciary hearing, [Ted] Cruz questioned Judge Sarah Netburn, whom President Biden has nominated to the US District Court. Netburn has a long record of dealing with complex cases but Cruz focused on one in particular: her recommendation in 2022 that the serial rapist William McClain be transferred to a women’s prison.
In 2015, when McClain was 51, after he was released from jail for raping two children and before being reincarcerated for sharing violent child pornography, he chose to identify as a woman. And off he went to a women’s prison, with Netburn’s blessing. When the Bureau of Prisons suggested this could be traumatising and dangerous to the female prisoners, the judge dismissed that concern as “overblown”.
I have to wonder exactly why that concern was “overblown.”
“The other women in that prison … do they have the right not to have a 6ft 2in man who is a repeat, serial rapist put in as their cellmate?” thundered Cruz.
“I considered the facts presented to me and I reached a decision based on the law,” replied Netburn in a “computer says no” monotone. Given she referred to the convicted rapist as “she” during the hearing, her grasp on facts is perhaps a little shaky.
How a female judge can do this to female prisoners and still sleep at night is beyond me.
Biden also expanded Title IX — the civil rights law prohibiting sex discrimination in schools — to include gender identity, after the Trump administration had restricted it to referring to biological sex. Yet his team have been tentative about how this would work with school sports, and as a result, there are endless clips online of American boys with long hair body-slamming girls in basketball games and stealing gold medals in girls’ running races.
And smirking while they do it.
Gender ideologues try to dismiss feminists — who argue there are major biological differences between men and women — by describing them as “right-wing”. It is true most politicians on the right tend to understand the existence of biological sex. They also probably accept the existence of gravity. That so many on the left would — still! — rather jettison women’s rights than state the well-established obvious reflects badly only on them, and it has left a lot of women politically homeless, stuck between anti-abortion homophobes on one side and biology-denying, rapist-pandering cultists on the other.
Utterly and completely homeless.
I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some on the woke left who would be happy to state that gravity is a racist, imperialist, colonialist, fascist, TERF-y concept.
Maybe the learned judge can explain to us exactly where “underblown” grades into negligence and reckless endangerment? And perhaps she could also go on the record with her thoughts on the advisability of issuing loaded rifles to imprisoned mass shooters, or handing out care packages of matches and accelerant to convicted arsonists?
I’m having difficulty understanding the mindset. To most people, rape-as-punishment is an abhorrent concept, and as soon as it is discovered that some male prison guards might rape female prisoners, would immediately change the staff arrangements so that prisons for women only have female warders. Not this piece of work. Oh no; to her, it seems to me, that rape-as-punishment is such a good thing that it ought to be a guaranteed part of any woman’s prison sentence. If the risk of rape from male guards isn’t 100%, then we as a society are duty-bound to house convicted rapists in with women. Is that how it works in her mind? How has she been so warped that she can think that way?