Yet another refusal to report accurately.
Trans murderer ‘sexually assaulted female inmate in prison’s hair salon’
Wtf is a trans murderer? Someone who pretends to be a murderer but isn’t one?
If you’re already in the know, of course, you can tell from the “female inmate” bit that they mean a male murderer – but why the hell do they not say so? Why obfuscate in the headline?
A transgender murderer housed in a women’s prison has been charged with sexually assaulting a female inmate.
A male transgender murderer. The word “transgender” does not tell us what sex you’re talking about.
Alexandria Stewart – previously known as Alan Baker – is accused of attacking a woman in the hairdressing salon of the female-only wing of HMP Greenock.
Stewart has been held as a woman at the prison since 2016. The 38-year-old changed gender after being jailed in 2013 for the knife murder of dad-of-two John Weir.
It’s almost funny at this point. Still adamant refusal to spell out that Stewart is a man. What, do they think they’ll be arrested if they say the violent man is a man? Why do they go along with this dishonest manipulative refusal to call a man a man?
The allegation, first reported by the Daily Record, has put renewed pressure on Scotland’s prison chiefs to rethink their “dangerous” policy of allowing biological men to be housed in women’s jails.
There it is at last. In the fourth paragraph. Don’t bury the lede.
Under current guidelines, transgender women are allowed to be housed in female jails unless they pose an “unacceptable” risk of harm to fellow inmates – even if they have a history of violence against women.
And the Telegraph does its bit to help by going to absurd lengths to avoid calling a man a man…but anyway, it is quite the horror that Scotland’s prison chiefs think it’s ok for women to face an acceptable risk of harm from men in female jails. Acceptable to whom, one wonders. Acceptable in what sense. Acceptable why.
SNP ministers are in court fighting to keep the guidelines after campaign group For Women Scotland (FWS) launched a legal challenge arguing the policy was “inconsistent” with the court’s judgment.
Susan Smith, an FWS director, said: “It has been a dangerous and stupid experiment to allow prisons to be mixed sex, and it’s having a severe impact on the human rights of the women in the prisons.
“Maybe now the prison service and the Scottish Government can wake up and realise that what they’ve been doing presents a clear and constant risk of state-sanctioned sexual assault – no matter what the outcome in this case it should sharpen minds to that reality.”
But clearly it won’t, and they’ll go right on allowing prisons to be mixed sex because women just don’t matter.
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