Trans killer now identifies as infant and demands dummy, nappies and baby food in jail

 

A transgender killer now identifies as an infant and demands nappies, a dummy, and baby food in prison, it is reported. Sophie Eastwood, 36, formerly known as Daniel Eastwood, was sentenced to life in prison in 2004 after using shoelaces to strangle her(sic) cellmate.

Eastwood, who has lived as a woman in Polmont prison in Brightons, Scotland, for four years, is now demanding prison staff treat her like a baby.

Sources told the Daily Record she has told the prison governor she wants to wear a nappy, have her food pureed like a baby, and has even been supplied with a dummy.

Prison bosses are said to be taking the demands seriously.

The killer even demands officers hold her hand when she is escorted from her cell, according to reports.

A source told the Daily Record Eastwood is “difficult” and “manipulative”.

The source said: “This prisoner has been difficult and manipulative over the years, which is why she is still behind bars after 17 years.

 

Source: Trans killer now identifies as infant and demands dummy, nappies and baby food in jail

Gender identity treatment needs greater caution | Transgender | The Guardian

Letter: Dr David Bell, former staff governor at the Tavistock and Portman NHS foundation trust, on its Gender Identity Development Service.

Almost all children on puberty blockers continue to opposite-sex hormones; an unknown number progress to major surgery. The ethical weight of the decision to commence the medical pathway is freighted with that knowledge.

The employment tribunal case brought by Sonia Appleby, child safeguarding lead for the Tavistock, revealed an intimidating culture dismissive of risk. And Keira Bell did not “sue” the Tavistock, but won a judicial review on the issue of consent. While this was overturned, serious concerns raised by the judges on clinical governance – record-keeping, complete absence of follow-up etc – still stand. The CQC found Gids “inadequate”.

Your article makes no reference to the growing group of detransitioners – those who regret the irreversible damage done and feel that their “treatment” was based on ideology, not appropriate clinical concern. Many suffered from confusion in relation to same-sex attraction; when I investigated Gids, this was largely ignored.

A child’s wishes must be taken seriously, but can be only one factor in reaching an overall decision about their best interests, in a highly charged and complex situation. Given the uncertainty surrounding diagnosis and treatment of gender dysphoria, the UK should, like Finland, Sweden and France, follow a more cautious path; we should end medication and medical transition for children and adolescents now.

Source: Gender identity treatment needs greater caution | Transgender | The Guardian

TasCAT rejected Lesbian activist’s appeal claim of discrimination over her ejection from Launceston Target in 2021 | The Examiner | Launceston, TAS

The Tasmanian Civil and Administrative Tribunal this week ruled against a Tasmanian lesbian woman who had claimed she was ejected from the Launceston Target store in 2021 for discussing the the rights of biological women and the prevalence of gender-neutral toilets and changerooms.

Source: TasCAT rejected Lesbian activist’s appeal claim of discrimination over her ejection from Launceston Target in 2021 | The Examiner | Launceston, TAS

Gender-neutral ‘woke’ awards create a drama | The Australian

A co-founder of the prestigious Sydney Theatre Awards has attacked the organisation’s elimination of male and female acting categories as “woke, PC” and “downright offensive”, and revealed how she resigned over the switch to gender-neutral prizes for drama and musicals stars.

Veteran theatre critic Diana Simmonds noted that while awards bodies including the Oscars and the Golden Globes were lifting their game by becoming more diverse, “in Sydney, however, things have gone another step into full-on La La Land’’.

The 2022 awards, announced last Monday, featured six gender-neutral acting prizes across main stage, independent and musicals productions – a sharp decrease from the 12 acting prizes available before 2021, when male and female categories were being used.

A spokesperson for the awards said these reforms were implemented in 2021 after it was decided “that the system of dividing performers into two groups (male and female) and ignoring a third group’’ – gender non-conforming performers – was “exclusionary”.

With other theatre critics, Simmonds helped establish the awards in 2005, while she was reviewing for The Sunday Telegraph.

A former arts editor of The Bulletin, she told The Australian that when the decision was made two years ago to effectively halve the number of acting awards by offering only one degendered prize in each performance category, “I just couldn’t believe it’’.

She decided to write and speak publicly about her resignation, which was sparked by the move to gender-neutral acting gongs, when she saw “the results” of the 2022 awards.

Simmonds’ protest comes as the UK’s leading music prizes, the Brit Awards – which went gender-neutral in 2021 – faced a backlash over its all-male line-up of nominees for the best artist category. This year, all five nominees in that category – Stormzy, Central Cee, Fred Again, George Ezra and Harry Styles – are male.

This is despite the awards eliminating gender categories in 2021 in a bid to be more inclusive, especially towards non-binary artists such as Sam Smith.

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‘I would refuse to race’ – female athletes join outcry at transgender plans

Female runners from Great Britain’s Olympic team have joined the growing revolt against plans that could force them to race transgender women in future.

Team GB duo Beth Dobbin and Emily Diamond, and fellow Paris 2024 hopeful Ellie Baker, are the most high-profile current British female athletes to have voiced their fierce opposition to a proposal first revealed by Telegraph Sport.

It follows the launch of a consultation by World Athletics over changes to its rules it has proposed should stop short of banning those born male from competing against women.

Baker, an 800m semi-finalist at July’s World Athletics Championships, posted: “I love track&field. I train hard everyday to reach my goals in this sport but if this is going to be allowed this will take away biological women’s livelihoods. We don’t stand a chance. We may as well give up now. I’m not anti trans. It’s just a matter of what’s fair & what isn’t.”

Source: ‘I would refuse to race’ – female athletes join outcry at transgender plans

Trans woman found guilty of rape will not be held in women’s prison, says Sturgeon | Scotland | The Guardian

Isla Bryson, a transgender woman found guilty of raping two women before transitioning, will not be imprisoned in Scotland’s all-female Cornton Vale prison, Nicola Sturgeon has told the Scottish parliament.

The first minister confirmed Bryson would not be incarcerated in the women’s prison “either short-term or long-term”, after a report saying the offender had been transferred there on Tuesday prior to sentencing prompted outrage across the political and campaigning spectrum.

Bryson is expected to be moved to a male prison later on Thursday.

Pressed repeatedly on the matter at first minister’s questions on Thursday by the Scottish Conservative leader, Douglas Ross, Sturgeon said she agreed it was not possible to have a rapist incarcerated in a female prison.

Emphasising this was an operational matter for the Scottish Prison Service, she added: “The Scottish Prison Service is in the process of giving effect to the decision it has taken not to incarcerate this prisoner in Cornton Vale.”

It later emerged that Sturgeon had made a rare intervention during a meeting involving Keith Brown, the justice secretary, which took place shortly before she announced at Holyrood that Bryson was being moved from Cornton Vale.

Opponents of the Scottish government’s gender recognition changes, which the UK government has blocked from going for royal assent because of “safety issues for women and children”, said the case vindicated their concerns about a lack of safeguards in the bill.

Source: Trans woman found guilty of rape will not be held in women’s prison, says Sturgeon | Scotland | The Guardian

President of leading trans org admits social contagion is driving surge in kids identifying as transgender | The Post Millennial

The president of the World Professional Association forTransgender Health (WPATH) has admitted that social contagion isa factor in the dramatic increase in children and adolescents identifying as transgender.

Dr. Marci Bowers, a trans-identified male and president of the leading transgender health organization that pushes for affirmation and medical intervention for youth who believe themselves to be members of the opposite sex, made the comments in a recent interview with the New York Times.

This is not the first time Bowers has made such comments. In 2021, the celebrity gender surgeon who has performed more than 2,000 vaginoplasties acknowledged the possibility that the surge in teenage girls identifying as boys was a social trend.

This didn’t stop WPATH from removing all lower age requirements from its latest Standards of Care guidelines, nor did it cause the internationally respected transgender health group to reconsider advising clinicians to immediately affirm every child who declares a transgender identity.

Another leading figure in the field of gender medicine to acknowledge the social contagion factor is Dr. Erica Anderson, a trans-identified clinical psychologist who has treated hundreds of children and adolescents for gender dysphoria.

Last year, Anderson wrote about the power of trans influencers on TikTok and YouTube encouraging young people to identify as transgender.

Source: President of leading trans org admits social contagion is driving surge in kids identifying as transgender | The Post Millennial | thepostmillennial.com

The Mining Industry of Western Australia and the Problem of Sexual Harassment — FiLiA

Madhulika Agarwal discusses the failure of the Australian Government Inquiry into sexual harassment in its mining industry and its failure even to acknowledge the widespread existence of male violence against women in the sector.

Source: The Mining Industry of Western Australia and the Problem of Sexual Harassment — FiLiA

Crisis committee reassembled in Spain after six more women and a young girl murdered – Women’s Agenda

Six women and a young girl have been murdered in Spain since the start of January, prompting the Spanish government to call a second emergency meeting of domestic violence experts in less than a month.

Last assembled after the murders of 11 women in December, the crisis committee is now considering a plan to let abused women know if their partners have been convicted of violent offences.

In 2022, 49 women were killed by their partner or ex-partner, and in 2021, there were 43 women killed by these violent attacks.

(ed: In Australia the tally for 2022 was 55 women killed and our population is 25 million to Spain’s 47 million).

Source: Crisis committee reassembled in Spain after six more women and a young girl murdered – Women’s Agenda

When Students Change Gender Identity, Should Schools Tell Their Parents? – The New York Times

Educators are facing wrenching new tensions over whether they should tell parents when students socially transition at school.

Although the number of young people who identify as transgender in the United States remains small, it has nearly doubled in recent years, and schools have come under pressure to address the needs of those young people amid a polarized political environment where both sides warn that one wrong step could result in irreparable harm.

The public school that Mrs. Bradshaw’s son attends is one of many throughout the country that allow students to socially transition — change their name, pronouns, or gender expression — without parental consent. Districts have said they want parents to be involved but must follow federal and, in some cases, state guidance meant to protect students from discrimination and violations of their privacy.

But dozens of parents whose children have socially transitioned at school told The Times they felt villainized by educators who seemed to think that they — not the parents — knew what was best for their children. They insisted that educators should not intervene without notifying parents unless there is evidence of physical abuse at home. Although some didn’t want their children to transition at all, others said they were open to it, but felt schools forced the process to move too quickly, and that they couldn’t raise concerns without being cut out completely or having their home labeled “unsafe.”

Conservative legal groups have filed a growing number of lawsuits against school districts, accusing them of failing to involve parents in their children’s education and mental health care. Critics say groups like these have long worked to delegitimize public education and eradicate the rights of transgender people.

But how schools should address gender identity cuts through the liberal and conservative divide. Parents of all political persuasions have found themselves unsettled by what schools know and don’t reveal.

Judges have dismissed many of the lawsuits. In December, a federal judge threw out Mr. Foote’s case, writing that affirming a student’s gender identity was not necessarily a medical intervention or even evidence of social transition, but “simply accords the person the basic level of respect expected in a civil society generally.”

However, the judge acknowledged that “it is disconcerting” that school administrators might “actively hide information from parents about something of importance regarding their child.”

In January, Mr. Foote filed an appeal.

Source: When Students Change Gender Identity, Should Schools Tell Their Parents? – The New York Times