What’s Current: Violent male pedophile being housed in BC women’s prison with mother-baby unit

  • A Canadian man with a long history of extremely violent crime — including the rape of a three-month-old baby in 1997 — is being housed at the Fraser Valley Institution for Women in Abbotsford after identifying as “transgender.” Fraser Valley Institution for Women features a minimum-security annex that hosts a program for incarcerated mothers and their babies.
  • Civil rights attorney and homeless advocate Ann Menasche has filed a suit in San Diego Superior Court against her former employer, Disability Rights California (DRC), for wrongful termination. Menasche claims she was fired for declaring, “safe, legal abortion is a life and death issue for women as a sex,” and for supporting the maintenance of sex and sexual orientation as protected characteristics under law.
  • The Scottish Green Party has suspended trans activist Beth Douglas from the role of Rainbow Greens co-convener, after posting a number of tweets threatening women and “Terfs.” In December, Douglas, who was in Holyrood’s public gallery when the Scottish Parliament’s gender self-ID bill passed, was accused by SNP MP Joanna Cherry of making “violent threats towards women” on Twitter, having posted a tweet with two friends, flexing their muscles, with the text: “POV you’re cis on #TransDayOfVisibility and we are going to beat you up for it.” Greens co-leader, Patrick Harvie, Scottish Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton, and Greens MSP Ross Greer were pictured applauding Douglas as he made a speech at the victory rally following the December vote on gender self-ID.
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Meghan Murphy is a freelance writer and journalist from Vancouver, BC. She has been podcasting and writing about feminism since 2010 and has published work in numerous national and international publications, including The Spectator, UnHerd, Quillette, the CBC, New Statesman, Vice, Al Jazeera, The Globe and Mail, and more. Meghan completed a Masters degree in the department of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies at Simon Fraser University in 2012 and is now exiled in Mexico with her very photogenic dog.