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To those of us in the UK who have been vigorously – and effectively – fighting back against the harms of transgender ideology, Australia is a laughing stock.
As a lifelong feminist campaigner against male violence towards women and girls, to me one thing is crystal clear: there is a special place in hell reserved for privileged women who should know better but who still betray other women.
Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan is a full-blown trans activist who has swallowed the ideology whole. Allan endorses the indoctrination of schoolchildren into the gender cult and the dissemination of the dangerous lie that “trans children” are at a much higher risk of taking their own lives. She also has accused this newspaper of causing hurt and harm.
And now the latest scandal. In Victoria, a 25-year-old man who sexually abused his five-year-old daughter is being held in a state correctional facility for women because he identifies as female. Inevitably, Allan is an avid supporter of placing dangerous male sex offenders in the women’s prison estate.
Since setting up the UK feminist law reform organisation Justice for Women in 1990, I have gained decades of experience working on the issue of women in prison, and there can be no doubt that the vast majority of them, whatever their conviction, have been victims of child sexual abuse, domestic violence and rape.
Whatever crimes they have committed, these women are the most vulnerable. Being locked up alongside male guards is bad enough – and feminists have been campaigning against this since the 1980s – but being incarcerated alongside male child sex offenders claiming to be women is another level of horror.
When it comes to the safety of women and children, both the Australian media and the Premier display an unholy mix of general complacency and wilful neglect. Shame on them.
Source: Jacinta Allan’s trans activism is a betrayal of women