That’s the hashtag that feminist activists use to point out the times when a crime – usually violent, often sexual – is described in the news (or even by law enforcement) as having been committed by a “woman,” who is actually a man.
It happens…a lot. I blogged about it here (it’s a catch-all post, scroll down to the bottom)
This is, of course, important. Accuracy in reporting crime, both in the media and in official records, matters. To accede to the wishes of a male to be called a female, and to shriek about misgendering when perhaps it’s good for the public to know that a dude in a wig is out there threatening women and children, is just one more reason why “trans” shouldn’t be treated as an actual thing.
Here’s an example. It’s kind of interesting and convoluted.
A 26-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in Palmdale…
Does that make your radar quiver? It should. Yes, women commit crimes. Women commit sexual crimes. Women commit sexual crimes against children.
But do women sexually assault children in Denny’s restrooms?
Not exactly the profile of a female criminal.
The LATimes has an article about a case involving one “Hannah Tubbs.” The issue at the heart of the article is not about sexuality, but about juvenile defendants. The LA DA has said that he will not be prosecuting juveniles at all – another issue, and this case is a complicated part of that puzzle. For the crime of sexual assault was committed in 2014, when Tubbs was a juvenile (either almost 17 or 18 – new stories differ on this) , but the crime was not tracked to him until 2019, when he was implicated in a number of other crimes.
The whole situation is, as I said, centered on the treatment of juveniles – and then, since he’s not a juvenile any more – the convolutions of bureaucracy and stubborn ideology. Here’s a useful Twitter thread summarizing the issue.
But that’s not my point.
The LATimes characterizes Tubbs as “Hannah” and uses female pronouns to refer to him directly, and [inserts] female pronouns in the speech of others when they are obviously referring to Tubbs as male.
A 26-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to sexually assaulting a 10-year-old girl in Palmdale might be sentenced to a short stay in juvenile hall or granted probation at a court hearing this month, sparking another round of outrage over Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. George Gascón’s all-or-nothing criminal justice reform platform.
….Tubbs, who is transgender and identifies as female, was 17 years old when prosecutors alleged she sexually assaulted a 10-year-old girl in the restroom of a Denny’s restaurant in Palmdale in 2014. She has pleaded guilty to the charge, but sentencing has been repeatedly delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
There was no “she” assaulting a ten-year old in a Denny’s in Palmdale.
Other news outlets – such as (no surprise) Fox, refer to Tubbs as James and male throughout.
The Glinner Update has some other related stories today, including that of a Kansas sex offender who’s making news campaigning for self-id in prisons.
While on bail, Pina began identifying as trans and adopted the name Rayne Aloysius Constantine Rose Bennett. Following his conviction, he was placed in a male prison. He immediately sought out a mental health professional to diagnose him with gender dysphoria, no doubt hoping for a transfer to a women’s prison, but his claim of being transgender was rejected and he remained in the male estate…
Articles from KCUR, the Kansas branch of National Public Radio, CJ Online and The Leavenworth Times all used Pina to shill for a policy which would allow males to be accommodated in female prisons. They positively gush over him and, despite his not having a diagnosis of gender dysphoria, refer to him with female pronouns…
….Another salient fact omitted by all of these pieces is that Pina was convicted for sexually abusing a 14-year-old girl. Funny that.
Let’s make it simple: Sociopathic abusers and criminals will do anything to get access to victims, and are also narcissistic crybabies by definition. “Not really trans!” you cry in defense. Okay, then, with self-id, how does society tell the difference?
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For the handful of people (mostly academics, as I understand) who created the anti-Christian, anti-human, utopian ideologies behind this sort of thing, and whose ideological successors are pushing them on countries from the top on down, more victims are the whole point of transgenderism, rampant homosexualism, “gender-fluidity”, et al. Break down enough people, break down enough families, break down enough communities, and Western civilization will fall. And their hopes are that Utopia will rise from the ashes. Which is crazy, but most corners of academia hasn’t been sane since before Luther. They haven’t even resembled sane since before Descartes. There are exceptions even now, but that isn’t enough to change the intellectual core of most European/American societies.