Source: Womens Safety Summit
Category: Violence
India woman who accused MP of rape dies in self-immolation – BBC News
The death of a 24-year-old Indian woman, who had set herself on fire last week after alleging harassment by police and judiciary at the behest of an MP she had accused of rape, has once again put the spotlight on the shameful treatment of women in India.
The woman had accused Atul Rai, an MP from the regional Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), of raping her at his home in Varanasi city and registered a police complaint against him in May 2019.
Mr Rai, who denies the accusation, was arrested a month later and has been in jail for the past two years.
Last November, his brother registered a police complaint accusing the woman of forgery. She had called the accusation “false” but earlier this month, a court issued a non-bailable arrest warrant against her.
In the video recording of the Facebook live, the young woman is seen accusing the MP of using his influence to harass her.
She and her friend name several police officials and even a judge, accusing them of colluding with Mr Rai.
Source: India woman who accused MP of rape dies in self-immolation – BBC News
Medicare investigation indicates female genital mutilation in Australia – Michael West Media
Medicare data indicates doctors are performing circumcisions on females, many under the age of five. Health authorities are claiming a computer error but an investigation by Tasha May has found alarm among community groups.
Data publicly available on Services Australia’s website records that between July 2013 to July 2021 there were 1,836 claims made under the Medicare code for the circumcision of the penis but recorded for female patients. Over half of these claims were for girls under 15 years of age.
All states and territories have enacted criminal legislation prohibiting female circumcision, known more commonly as female genital mutilation (FGM). However, Khadija Gbla, a survivor of FGM and Director of Ending FGM Australia, says it’s a fact that FGM does still occur in Australia and that a conservative estimate suggests that 11 girls a day are at risk.
Gbla said she would not be surprised if some are subsidising the practice under Medicare as “we know Medicare fraud occurs” and the high numbers of occurrence appear “too much for it to be a coincidence.”
Betul Tuna, Project Officer for the Ethnic Council of Shepparton, said that their investigation found several male circumcision clinics entertained the idea of performing the circumcision on females while other clinics directed them to home circumcision avenues.
Source: Medicare investigation indicates female genital mutilation in Australia – Michael West Media
Rising Abuse, Sexual Violence Against Incarcerated Women by Male ‘Transgender’ Inmates | Women Are Human
Shocking incidents of sexual violence against incarcerated women are alarmingly on the rise as laws are increasingly passed to allow male inmates who self-identify as women to be placed in women’s prisons. Here are examples of some of the worst reported incidents of sexual brutality by transgender-identifying, male prisoners against incarcerated women to have come […]
#ThisNeverHappens happens again – by ripx4nutmeg – The Glinner Update
In 2018, before BBC’s Woman’s Hour turned into People’s Hour, it interviewed trans activist, and Jolyon Maugham teacher, Alex Sharpe, who spent much of the interview saying that predictions that self ID could lead to dangerous men saying that they’re women for nefarious reasons were “utterly bogus and massively concocted. It’s a campaign of fear, it’s a moral panic that’s been generated by gender critical feminists.”
This led to the #ThisNeverHappens hashtag, which gets an airing every time a story breaks of a man who said he’s a woman in order to commit a crime or as a defence after being caught committing a crime.
#ThisNeverHappens has happened again.
Michael Hari is a far-right terrorist with a history of violent behaviour.
He was convicted of child abduction in 2006 and in 2017, when a neighbour complained about his loose dogs, Hari allegedly attacked him and put a gun to his head. However, the trial has been postponed because of more pressing court matters, such as his alleged attempts to bomb an abortion clinic, and his role in the bombing of an Islamic Centre in Minnesota. Prosecutors have requested that he be sentenced to a full life term.
However, with sentencing now just a couple of weeks away, Michael has asked a judge to legally acknowledge that he is a woman called Emily Claire Hari, that ‘gender dysphoria fueled her “inner conflict” when she was convicted in the bombing’, that he should therefore receive no more than 30 years in jail, and he has ‘asked for an amended prison placement [that is, to be housed in a women’s jail] based on her transgender identity’.
Source: #ThisNeverHappens happens again – by ripx4nutmeg – The Glinner Update
Notorious baby killer among biological males granted transfers to women’s prisons | The Post Millennial
The California legislature passed a measure in July to house prison inmates according to their stated gender identity and not according to biological sex. The policy went into effect January 1, and since then, 261 inmates have requested transfers, nearly all of them biological males asking to be housed with women.
The death penalty is currently suspended in California. Hann requested cross-gender surgery in 2019, at the state’s expense, claiming to identify as a woman, and then asked to be moved to a women’s prison. Hann was moved to the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla in May 2020, and remains there still, as does the mother of the children Hann beat to death.
Serial killer reveals post-prison struggles in fight for more freedoms
In a bid for more freedom, a serial killer has spoken of her challenges since being released from prison, ranging from making friends to using a mobile phone and the internet for the first time.
Regina Kaye Arthurell, who was jailed under the name Reginald Kenneth Arthurell, began transitioning shortly after being released from prison in November last year.
Once dubbed the “cowboy killer”, Arthurell served almost 24 years behind bars for bludgeoning fiancee Venet Mulhall to death at Coonabarabran in 1995 while on parole.
Mr Quinn, Ms Mulhall’s brother, said the killer would always need to be monitored and would remain a “danger to society” until on the “wrong side of the grass”.
He said he was worried about the idea of Arthurell being allowed to travel anywhere in Australia.
Mr Quinn said when the killer left his sister for dead, Arthurell was dressed as a female, who witnesses at the time mistook for the victim.
“This person doesn’t have a desire to be in a relationship, he’s a psychopath and he is just looking for somebody to take advantage of. He’s done that all his life”, Mr Quinn said.
Source: Serial killer reveals post-prison struggles in fight for more freedoms
J.K. Rowling says she faces threats by ‘hundreds’ of trans activists amid controversy
While the writer has been under scrutiny by trans activists since 2019, this week she revealed that things have escalated into death threats.
On Monday, Rowling, 55, retweeted a threat from a since-deleted Twitter account that said, “I wish you a very nice pipebomb in mailbox.”
“To be fair, when you can’t get a woman sacked, arrested or dropped by her publisher, and cancelling her only made her book sales go up, there’s really only one place to go,” she wrote.
When a user asked if the threat was, in part, because of comments she made about the trans community, Rowling confirmed “yes.”
“Hundreds of trans activists have threatened to beat, rape, assassinate and bomb me,” she said, saying that she’s since “realised that this movement poses no risk to women whatsoever.”
Source: J.K. Rowling says she faces threats by ‘hundreds’ of trans activists amid controversy
Mother says trans woman with ‘penis and beard’ got into hot tub with her daughter, 6, at LA spa | Daily Mail Online
EXCLUSIVE: LA mom recalls her shock after person with a ‘beard and penis’ got into women-only hot tub with her six-year-old daughter at Wi Spa – where clashes between trans activists and rival protesters broke out last week Los Angeles mother, Anita, described her uncomfortable experience visiting Wi Spa with her young daughter last January, in an interview with DailyMail.com The woman, who asked to obscure her identity for fear of getting ‘canceled,’ said she was shocked to find a person ‘with a penis’ in the women-only hot tub, The spa, located on Wilshire Blvd, made headlines last week after a viral video showed a customer complaining about a trans woman in the steam room Anita, a registered Democrat, said she’s an LGBTQ supporter but wants to protect her six-year-old daughter’s innocence ‘The person I saw seemed like an activist… Almost enjoying everyone around them being uncomfortable,’ she said She initially tried to blocking her daughter’s view before deciding to leave and complain to staff – who said there was nothing they could do The mom then reported the incident to the police but claimed the reporting officer was dismissive and blamed her for ‘putting her child in that situation’ The viral video prompted protests outside the spa last week, leading to violent clashes between trans activists and counter-protesters
“A Massive Crisis”: Majority of U.S. Mass Shootings Have Links to Domestic Violence | Democracy Now!
With the U.S. marking at least 242 mass shootings so far in 2021, according to the Gun Violence Archive, we speak with policy expert Julia Weber about the link between gun violence and domestic violence. “We know that this is a massive crisis that we need to address much more effectively,” says Weber, the implementation director at the Giffords Law Center. A 2020 Bloomberg analysis looking at nearly 750 mass shootings over a six-year span found about 60% of the shootings were either domestic violence attacks or committed by men with histories of domestic violence.
Source: “A Massive Crisis”: Majority of U.S. Mass Shootings Have Links to Domestic Violence | Democracy Now!