m San Francisco who authored the bill, said he doesn't expect that exception to be used very often.
“It's just a false narrative about transgender people and about transgender women in particular that they're somehow not really women and are just trying to scam their way into women's bathrooms or facilities in order to do bad things,” Wiener said. “Overwhelmingly the people who are being victimized are trans people.”
A false narrative? Well, here's an interesting case, in Ireland:
A teenager who was “born a male but identifies as a female” is facing four counts of making threats to kill or cause serious harm.
The accused, who has demonstrated a pattern of criminal and extreme physical and sexual violence towards women, is eager to be held in female custody while awaiting trial.
Gardaí, the national police service of the Republic of Ireland, says 18-year-old Barbie Kardashian made threats of violence against two individuals in July, August and September of this year. The youth was arrested on the night of Thursday, September 24, and has been remanded into custody.
At the time of his arrest, Mr Kardashian was free on bail on charges stemming from sexual assaults on two women.
According to gardaí, the accused young man “made some statements” on the date of his latest arrest “that she did intend to do some harm to herself.” Michèle Finan, solicitor for Mr Kardashian, insists her client would be “exceptionally vulnerable in a prison setting,” and is “very anxious she be detained in a prison facility for females, as she identifies as a female.”
The solicitor requested that her client’s “certificate of gender recognition” be submitted to Limerick District Court, which is hearing the case.
Barbie Kardashian?? His real name, apparently, is Alejandro Gentile.
Yes, he's been to the Tavistock Clinic in London, where it was noted that he outlined his gender difficulties by rote, as it were, without emotion – as though he was reciting from something he'd learned. Nevertheless it seems he did manage to obtain that all-important gender recognition certificate.
He's clearly a deeply troubled young man. [I mean, just look at him.] Sexual assaults on two women. Brought up in a highly dysfunctional family, and violently attacked his mother.
Not a typical case, no doubt. One would hope that if this were in California those “management or security concerns" would be invoked and the inmates of a woman's prison would be spared his unwelcome attentions. But still, it does rather cast doubt on the Californian senator's blithe assertion that it's just "a false narrative" that trans women could ever be a danger to real women.
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