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No shit, the man hired a guy who worships the most famously racist and homophobic police chief in history

I feel like everyone quoted in this article taking this seriously should like... Never be trusted ever again. I wonder what Gregory Freeman has been up to... Oh, he has a webpage, look at that; he's had a long and successful career; conveniently leaves this article off his CV though. Strange that.

I think the main thing here that kinda blows my mind is that you have to learn this new term from scratch and then use it in an authoritative tone of voice... without ever actually looking it up

I don't remember the article, I just remember being a young queer person during the bugchaser moral panic and yes it's the exact same thing.

By that number, it would imply there were more gay people doing "bugchasing" than not, when in reality it was like 10 actual guys, 8 of which got the idea from Rolling Stone, and a bunch of people doing "wouldn't it be hot if..." roleplay.

This happened. It has happened multiple times. Does anyone remember "bugchasers". That rolling stone article from 2002 or 03 claimed that 1/4th of all HIV infections in the U.S. was due to bugchasing.

The Transmaxxing moral panic is like if a straight evangelical overheard some gay guys talking about the "demon twink problem" and then went and found other guys talking about demon twinks ("I'll fucking kill that demon twink"), ...

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Because of this hospitalisation I'm watching a lot of social media and I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that I think the Charlie Kirk shooting has generated a wave of conspiracy theorists almost identical in scale to the September 11th attacks in 2001.

ah, just archaic then. governments will go to greater lengths to get out of paying for ppl to go therapy than the memes about men avoiding therapy

A WM led Govt ignores that patriarchy is what underpins sex offending/ gender violence. The MAN factor is not about their testes. It’s about what’s in their heads, how they’re brought up to be convinced that they’re entitled to everything, that they’re better than everyone,& they can act w impunity

There's a bleak irony in the fact that we're not so far off a reality where some of us in the UK will need to seek asylum in other countries.

Give it a few years, maybe a decade at most, and we'll be back to the same hellscape that caused Alan Turing's death. Used for rapists and whatnot now, but all it'll take is for some far right person to get in power and deem gay and trans people sex offenders again, and we're back to square one.

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I dunno but maybe the government that decides to label anti-genocide activists as "terrorists" shouldnt get to use permanent eugenicist punishments for ppl it labels sex offenders, particularly when everyone knows the worst sex offenders will never see the inside of a court

it was only in 2017 that the UK government retroactively pardoned gay men. it's colloquially called Alan Turing's law, being an expansion of a campaign to pardon Turing who was convicted and chemically castrated for homosexuality. the scope for abuse here is staggering and obvious.

They are also saying the cause of sexual violence are hormones or other biological factors, while it has been well researched and it is actually about asserting power and control over women.

Oh cool therapeutic castration is back too. Love repeating the mistakes of the early 20th century

Not to mention consider how this is all going to play out when there's inevitably another Andrew Malkinson...

Okay, I feel the need to say it since a few dumbasses pushed for that in my country. Sexual violence is violence, not sex. That's pure penal populism and helps no one.

prison labour source - to clarify it’s a proposal but i also can’t see the labour government saying ‘no’ to forced labour for the arms industry inews.co.uk/news/welder-...

education source: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

it coincides with a halving in the education budget for prisons and a commitment to use prison labour for arms manufacturing. literally what are we doing here

4. Chemical castration is part of an ugly lineage of conversion therapy, oppression of LGBTQIA people, oppression of BIPOC people, reproductive medical abuse. I don't think that can be put aside.

2. I don't think making chemical castration part of release means it can be freely consented to. 3. I was given unrealistic and inaccurate expectations of what meds would do to my body mind. I bet that happens in these contexts too.

I'm a psychiatric survivor of childhood sexual abuse and what I learned was how much bodily autonomy matters. I don't support chemical castration because 1. in my exp, medicating away behaviour rarely happens in a context of consistent, careful therapy and supervision.

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They also need to believe that cases will make it even to the courts. Even in the 70000 cases you mention as reported, only 2.6% are assigned a charge/summons in 2024 (Lords Library, ‘Rape: Levels of prosecutions) And to get there victims relive the offence at each stage.

The way they'll do it is by offering rapists the option of castration to reduce their sentences voluntarily so it will technically not be a forced procedure. But obviously this is still deeply coercive and pseudoscientific

Yeah exactly. There are (according to CSEW) about 700,000 incidents of sexual violence each year in England and Wales, 75% by men against women (others against children, between men, or rarely by women). We currently only have about 70,000 reported to the police each year.

Not the biggest issue with this, but there is a contradiction between claiming that the solution to sex offences is chemical castration while insisting that trans people be placed in the wrong prison regardless of if they have access to HRT. Either it stops offending or it doesn't, it can't be both

The few men who do face some consequences are made into deviants who need to be medically constrained. If these men are just aberrations, then the problem is with a few warped individuals who need to be treated, and the reputation of men as a class can be preserved. It's all patriarchal propaganda.

It's also just reinforcing the narrative that men can't help it (and therefore, can they really be blamed?). Drugs are needed because they just can't control themselves. It distracts from the real reason: power that rapists hold over their victims. Male supremacy cannot be allowed to be questioned.

The fact that it will send a Labour government scurrying around trying to find doctors willing to violate their Hippocratic Oath in pursuit of approving rightwing headlines is also a consideration.

Britain's chemical castration plan for sex offenders seems like the most obvious attempt to avoid doing anything about sex offending, while giving the govt an excuse to release large numbers of offenders despite the fact people can and do offend while chemically castrated.

Not even slightly surprised that Corbyn is harder on Sultana than he is on rabid transphobes he pals up with

"Legal advice is being taken" - that's pretty ominous for Sultana's camp

Not signed by Zarah Sultana...

Your Party was always riddled with Labour Brain.

Well. At least this is a very obvious case to point at next time someone claims misogyny isn't an issue on the left

I don’t know how people like Andrew Sullivan can still tell themselves they “support civil rights for transgender people” when they talk about trans people like this. Unreal levels of cognitive dissonance.

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Literally this. But true crime folls are fucking stupid

Remember when conservatives and pundits said trigger warnings were a huge threat to freedom of speech

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I don't know if anyone else is seeing this happen but a fringe of cis women following the widespread "groyper" speculation around Charlie Kirk are basically True Crime-ifying trans women more generally, talking about "transmaxxing" (a phenomenon that has next to no substance to it as a real thing)..

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