Thread by @Scot_Feminists

A man plead guilty this morning to abduction & sexual assault of a young girl. He had a sexual fetish that involved dressing in female underwear & clothing, with child sexual abuse porn on his laptop, videos associated with his fetishes. These crimes were committed by a male. 1/

This male has been pretending to be a woman for some years & had adopted the name of Amy George. The only reason this male was referred to as 'he' in court was because he agreed to it for 'simplicity'. In a very similar universe to ours, our court system would be referring to 2/

to this dangerous sexual pervert as 'she'. His crimes would be recorded as female crimes. He would stand a chance of a sentence in the female estate - we sincerely hope @scottishprisons don't #BeKind to 'Amy' at any point. Male crime, male prison. 3/

We also wonder if the young people now being told in Scotland that humans can change sex, that the strangely dressed man is really a women, face a bigger obstacle when assessing risk. We told you that allowing males to pretend to be women would end in tears. 4/

We were told our views were not valid by our First Minister. We've been called names, threatened with violence, kicked out of pubs, prevented from meeting, blocked from engaging with politicians, reported for hate crimes, crimes recorded against our sex that we cannot commit, 5/

had these sexually violent males placed in female prisons, along vulnerable women who deserve to be treated by the state with dignity, they deserve to be safe, feel safe, to have privacy from the male gaze. We bloody told you this would happen 6/

No person has the right to indulge their sexual fetish in public, no matter how much they claim a special identity, make claims of victimisation. No person has the right to be recognised as any identity they claim. Our criminal justice system should not be validating this. 7/

Our children, our women, should not be put at risk for the sake of some psychological conditions in some people. We can't hide problems for the sake of another person's ideology. We can't abandon safeguarding for all because of a person's mental health, their discomfort 8/

with their bodies. People can dress how they want, but we must not be forced to pretend they are anything other than what they are, that they present a different risk. We bloody told you this would happen. We've been let down. We will be again if this dangerous male 9/

is referred to by someone else's name, placed in a female prison, if any other young child is fooled into believing an adult is a sanctuary when scared because all their safeguarding alarms have been disabled. 10/

We bloody told you this would happen. Dismiss the women's warnings at your peril.
#WeToldYouSo