On Sunday September 11, I – and around 30 other Victorian women – gathered on Parliament steps in Melbourne to protest one of the most abhorrent consequences of Victoria’s transgender laws: the housing of violent male sex offenders in women’s prisons.
A trans-identified male attacked a woman in broad daylight in the inner-city suburb of Richmond, demanding that she ‘lie down and have sex’ with him. He put his hands down her pants, attempting to remove the woman’s jeans, but she was able to fight him off as passersby came to her aid. When confronted, the perpetrator said, ‘I didn’t do anything, it was her fault.’
I will not use female pronouns for this man.
This male predator is currently housed in the Dame Phyllis Frost Centre – a women’s correctional facility in Deer Park. Understandably, the female inmates are terrified. They have petitioned the Minister for Corrections, the Department of Justice and Community Safety, Corrections Victoria, and the Ombudsman to have the man transferred to a men’s prison, to no avail.
In another example of how dangerous trans and gender-diverse inclusion policies are for women, the inevitable has already happened. A trans-identified male sexually assaulted a woman at Tarrengower women’s prison in Maldon, Victoria. The only mention of this incident in mainstream media was in two paragraphs at the end of an article by The Age and Sydney Morning Herald. The article was largely devoted to championing research produced by La Trobe University in conjunction with Transgender Victoria, which focused on transgender people as suffering ‘intense sexual violence’ in the criminal justice system.
If you feel you’ve just stumbled into a dystopian nightmare, you’re not alone.
Source: Men in women’s prisons is a human rights violation | The Spectator Australia