Legalistic Bollocks

Transsexual killer wins battle to serve life sentence in a women's jail
The Times,Sept 5th 2009
Frances Gibb, Legal Editor

A transsexual killer who was born a man has won a legal battle to be transferred to a women’s prison.

The prisoner, who was also convicted of attempted rape, will be moved to a women’s jail within weeks after a High Court ruled that the refusal by Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, to transfer her violated her basic human rights and increased her long-term risk to society.

The prisoner is in her 20s and serving a life sentence for manslaughter and attempted rape.

She has had her womanhood recognised by law and her birth certificate has been amended accordingly, the High Court in London was told. She has had hair on her face and legs permanently removed by laser and has developed breasts after hormone treatment, but is forbidden from wearing skirts or blouses, or more than “subtle” make up, at the men’s prison where she is held on a wing for vulnerable prisoners.

Describing her as “a woman trapped inside a man’s body”, her barrister, Phillipa Kaufman, said the final step to her achieving full womanhood is gender reassignment surgery - but she had been told she cannot have it while in a men’s prison.

Moved to a women's prison because he wants "gender re-assignment surgery" and keeping him in a men's prison violates his Human Right to a Family Life? 

For myself, I reckon that if he wants/wanted the surgery, that's up to him, but he's still a man and should be in a male prison.. Despite its being a modern left-wing shibboleth, self-perception does not trump objective reality.

Women and men are very similar but also different right down to their DNA, and just because one perceives oneself is of the other sex it doesn't mean one is of the other sex. Only slightly more extreme, let us say that a woman prisoner who had been convicted of mutilating horses said that she thought she was a horse trapped in a human body, and wished for the State to give her cosmetic hooves and pay for her to be housed in a Stable - would you trust her, would you agree that she was really a horse? Would you worry for the safety of the horses he was with?

Or more closely, what about a ch1ld mo1ester who said he felt he was a child trapped in an adult's body - would you agree and fund treatment to remove all his body hair and then have him moved to a secure unit for child criminals?

Just because I believe or wish I were a horse rather than a human, it doesn't mean I'm objectively or even subjectively a horse. Even on the physical level, surgically invaginating penile and scrotal skin and nerves don't make a man a woman.and surgically everting vaginal and labial tissue to construct a pseudo-penis doesn't make a woman a man, even if the person is pumped full of the hormones of the sex they wish they were.

They should stop calling it Gender Re-assignment and call it Plastic Cosmetic Feminisation or Masculinisation, let people have it if they want to have it, but not start fabricating objective truth, like changing a Birth Certificate to say a man was born a girl when he was born a boy. Or putting a man like this in a woman's prison. Claiming that he perceives himself as a woman and the Law recognises him as a woman so therefore he is a woman is legalistic bollocks.
 
He's a killer and an attempted rapist. Male rapists shouldn't be in women's prisons, even if they've been through Plastic Cosmetic Feminisation; you don't need a cock to rape someone, but God help us, he still has his.

What about the women prisoners. Is nobody thinking of their Human Right not to be in danger of rape?