"How much longer are women going to stand for this insult?"
Magdalen Berns' question gets more urgent every day
BBC’s File on 4 this week broadcast a programme called ‘Women Who Abuse’. It focused on the 84% rise in the number of reported cases of female child abusers between 2015 and 2019.
Fair Play For Women have covered this in depth already: first of all, the rise is to 3% of all child sexual abuse (CSA) cases, meaning the remaining 97% of CSA offences is carried out by men, a fact that trans activists often pretend isn’t true, and secondly, much more importantly, police forces now record crimes based on the criminal’s self-declared gender and not their birth sex. You would imagine a caveat of this size might be relevant. It was not disclosed in the programme.
That’s the same BBC which last month rewrote Ben Hunte’s article on puberty blockers because of the errors and poor reporting it contained and this month had to cancel the children’s documentary 'DIY Trans Teens', which contained a false suicide claim in the promotional material alone. A spokesman said 'the documentary is not finished and will be broadcast at a later date'.
We’ve done our own research into some reports on recent female child abuse cases - see if you can spot a trend between these criminals to ascertain why there has been a rise in cases.
This week a court heard that Denen Anderson was found with ‘horrifying’ material on ‘her’ phone, including images, videos and notes about raping and torturing children.
The press refers to Denen as a woman throughout. But this is Denen’s actual name according to court documents.
There’s also Jacinta Brooks, who has targeted children at least three times in recent years.
(And if you think that Metro headline is extraordinary, how about this one from this week)
Julie Marshall was found with 80,000 images of child sexual abuse. The BBC called him a ‘Blackpool woman’.
Rachel Smith is a prolific sex offender with 50 convictions. And, like all the others on this page, is a man.
Katie Dolatowski avoided prison for this, and was instead sent to a female-only hostel.
Davina Ayrton’s sentence came in 2016, when the BBC would at least put the word ‘transgender’ in front of the word ‘woman’.
Officers found that Ella Davies held over 1,000 images of child abuse. But the judge still expressed sympathy for him, saying “I accept your experience of custody may be more challenging for you than for others, for obvious reasons.”
The BBC said Ella ‘turned herself in’ - using this accompanying image.
Chloe Walker has 49 offences against his name - ‘including a string of sexual crimes against boys and girls’.
Nick Pool was arrested after arranging to meet what he thought was a 12-year-old girl. He then became Stacey Pool.
And of course there’s Karen White, jailed for sexual offences against children, and then moved to a women’s prison when he identified as a woman. Where he raped female prisoners.
What do all these child sex offenders have in common?
They’re all male.
But they all identify as women.
So the police are recording them as female offenders.
And the BBC will then ask why there’s a rise in female child sex offenders, without disclosing any of the above.
How much longer will women stand for this insult?
I know that this is a drop in the ocean but I wrote to three Scottish local papers who reported the Denen STEVEN Anderson story. I wrote as follows:
Dear Editor,
The title and the use of "woman" and female pronouns for your story above is deeply misleading, and gives a completely false idea of the identity and motivation of this criminal. As the court document reveals this person is of course a biological male, Denen STEVEN Anderson, a fact which which should have been made clear.
https://cdn.substack.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fbucketeer-e05bbc84-baa3-437e-9518-adb32be77984.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F6bcdf9ee-71cc-4c2e-b493-dcf3a188d6d4_1914x712.jpeg
https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/denen-anderson-dundee-court/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=sharelink
You could have used an alternative and more accurate description, such as this title from the Metro: "Trans woman jailed for 15 years..." - https://metro.co.uk/2021/01/18/trans-woman-jailed-for-15-years-for-raping-another-woman-13921362/
It is entirely wrong to ascribe "rape" to women as they do not possess a penis. And similarly everyone knows that women do not collect child abuse material or fantasize about child abuse, as this criminal did. Women are occasionally convicted of child neglect, such as the case of Victoria Climbie. These are not cases of sexual abuse.
Why is the sex class of women being subjected to such targetted and very malicious slurs? I object very strongly on behalf of all women. This is mysogyny. We do not go around accusing men of being sexual predators unless they actually are sexual predators, as Denen STEVEN Anderson obviously is.
Can you please assure me that you will try to stick more closely to the facts when reporting?
Thank you.
Una-Jane Winfield
(Transwidow)
I find it hard to believe senior people in BBC governance aren’t aware of what’s going on, but perhaps their strategic level thinking leads to less overview on operational matters. Through my DH I know personally a (non exec) member of the BBC board. Do people here think there is any point in contacting him about the level of bias and lack of balance in this area?