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Over half of women within the female prison estate have experienced domestic abuse or sexual violence, often from a very young age and throughout their lives. Many have told me they are terrified whenever a trans (male) prisoner is admitted, but dare not say so lest they are accused of transphobia. Incarcerated women are already justifiably fearful of male prison guards, and sexual assault by male staff.
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I have, on numerous occasion, visiting women who have ended up inside as a direct or indirect consequence of male violence. I wonder how many of these Owen Jones types have been inside a women’s prison.
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But as someone who has campaigned against male violence and the criminal justice system for decades, I take serious exception to men telling me that women in jail are in no danger from trans identified men with fully intact genitalia. There is nothing new about men speaking on behalf of women, or even telling us we are wrong about matters that only apply to the female sex, but in recent years mansplaining has become such a problem that we even had to invent a term for it. I take serious exception to men telling me women in jail are in no danger from trans-identified men with fully intact genitalia How dare these men decide on prison policy that affects females? Except it is far from the end of the story for the numerous women sexually assaulted by trans identifying males in prison. On the eve of a debate in the House of Lords on whether prisons should be single sex, Paddick tweeted: “All prisoners are risk-assessed and placed into an appropriate prison. But in recent years, Paddick appears to have taken it upon himself to tell feminists we are wrong to be concerned about the likes of Barbie Kardashian and Karen White being placed in the women’s prison estate. The former senior Metropolitan police officer, now Lib Dem politician sitting in the House of Lords, has previously spoken out about how the brutal anti-gay culture within the police service affected his life and career.
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This attitude was laid bare during the 1970s, when lesbians walked out en masse on the Gay Liberation Front, deciding to fight for their rights independently, because they had become so fed up with men setting the agenda, talking over them in meetings and not listening to their concerns. To these men, despite the fact that they faced their own oppression for being gay, women were at the bottom of the pile. These men thought they had a right to appropriate what they saw as our behaviour and appearance for their own amusement.ĭespite facing their own oppression, gay men felt women were at the bottom of the pile Pretty much every gay club had its resident drag queen whose repertoire would often involve the most woman-hating jokes imaginable. They would adopt female names for each other (“Judy is having a good time tonight”) and would routinely refer to actual women that hung out with them as “fag hags”, a deeply cruel and misogynistic term. “Oooooh! Look at her!” could be heard over the loud disco music when one of the boys saw a man they fancied. It was not a trans thing, more like a sexist joke. When I was a young lesbian during the late 1970s and 80s, hanging out in gay nightclubs, I would encounter ultra-camp men referring to themselves and each other as “she” and “her”.
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I can already hear the cries of “homophobia” from the blue-fringed brigade, but I draw this connection in order to explore why so many gay men use their sexual identity as armour in the war over trans ideology, despite, unlike women, having no skin in the game. I can name several others known for haranguing feminists on the topic, such as the Scottish actor David Paisley, and shamed GP Adrian Harrop. What do Brian Paddick, Owen Jones and Patrick Strudwick have in common? All lecture women on the trans issue, and all are gay men. The ninth article, on ending the amnesty for male slobs, can be read here. “Sexists in gay armour” is the tenth article in Julie Bindel’s online column for The Critic, “The feminist fix”, which explores feminism’s answer to today’s challenges.