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A transgender rapist who started identifying as a woman after committing a sex attack has been complaining about the ‘hell’ of daily life in a male prison, the Daily Mail can reveal.
Lexi Secker sobbed after being sentenced to six and a half years behind bars last year for carrying out the sexual assault on a drunk friend.
Then called Alex, he lured her to woodland and raped her – and then claimed he was innocent and accused the victim of consenting. He continues to deny rape.
Secker went on trial as a woman, but the judge and police recorded that he was male when he carried out the attack in a woodland in Blunsdon, Wiltshire two years ago.
Just like the case of Scottish trans rapist Isla Bryson, Secker’s crimes caused anger when revealed.
It later emerged that Secker is an vocal ‘anti-TERF’ activist who trolled JK Rowling for her views on gender identity, calling the author a ‘shallow, insecure pleb who mistook success for intelligence’.
A year ago Secker, 36, wept as the judge said he had ‘regard to how difficult a prison sentence in a male institution will be’.
And it appears that the convicted rapist agrees, apparently writing letters from behind bars about suffering ‘constant discrimination’ at HMP Ashfield.
JK Rowling had followed the case and at its conclusion wrote on X: ‘The important thing to remember is, he’s a total one off*, none of the other men arguing against women-only spaces are predators** and we won’t find out down the line there are more rapists hiding in plain sight.***
‘*He really isn’t.
‘**They totally are.
‘***We definitely will.’