Scotland's gender meltdown

The reluctance of leading Scottish politicians to break ranks and admit that Graham is male has turned them into a laughing stock. The country’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon, couldn’t even bring herself to use his name, telling the Scottish Parliament: “I’m not going to get into the individual circumstances of that particular individual’s claims to be a woman because I don’t have enough information about that.” Some observers would respond that the fact Graham has been convicted of raping two women is a pretty strong clue about his sex. …

Graham had barely arrived at an all-male establishment when news broke that another “trans” inmate had been cleared to move to the female estate. Andrew Burns, who now calls himself Tiffany Scott, is one of the most dangerous prisoners in Scotland; photos show him bare-chested, in handcuffs, looking like a still from The Silence of the Lambs. Originally convicted of stalking a 13-year-old girl, he has assaulted inmates, prison officers, and nurses in jails across the country since being convicted; he is banned from appearing in court in person after he bit into a vein and spat blood at prison officers. Scott has been trying to get a transfer to a women’s jail for years. With exquisitely bad timing, the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) relented just before the Graham case blew up. It has now paused the movement of all transgender prisoners, including Burns, while a “review” takes place.

“Until the review is completed, any trans individuals with a history of violence towards women will only be admitted to the male estate, in segregation, when they first enter our care,” an SPS spokesman said. Sex-segregated prisons have existed for two centuries in the UK, so why the service needs a “review” to decide where male offenders should be housed is anyone’s guess. But common sense evidently departed from Scotland a long time ago.

[It has departed from many places in the last few years. It’s a form of insanity that somehow got the blessing of mainstream culture despite all of its contradictions and clear opposition to both science and common sense. Don’t think for a moment that Scotland is anything more than a poster country for a madness that is descending over the entire West. — Ed]