In a truly awful case, Dana Rivers, a male killer, was sentenced to life without parole for brutally murdering a lesbian couple and their son. Despite the depravity of the crime, Rivers, who now identifies as a woman, was sent to a women’s prison. Jo Bartosch in Spiked points out that the silence from LGBTQ+ organisations and the media’s refusal to address this case is as dangerous as it is disturbing.
In 2016, Dana Rivers, a once-feted campaigner for ‘trans rights’, brutally murdered a middle-aged lesbian couple and their teenage son in Oakland, California. Last week, after years in custody and countless legal delays, Rivers (formerly known as David Chester Warfield) was finally sentenced to life without parole. And then came a particularly grim twist. This male killer of two women was sent to a women-only prison to live out his days.
If anything captures the dangerous grip gender ideology now has over American public life it is surely this: a man who murdered a lesbian couple being sent to a women-only jail. And what makes it worse is that the Rivers trial has almost been completely ignored by the wider media, activists and politicians.
This was a particularly gruesome case. Prosecutors say Rivers used a handgun, equipped with a silencer, to shoot Charlotte Reed, Patricia Wright and their son, Benny Diambu-Wright. He then stabbed Reed 47 times before setting the family’s garage on fire in an attempt to cover his tracks. The killings were said to be motivated by Reed’s departure from an ‘all-female’ biker gang. Rivers was reportedly the gang’s enforcer.
Reflecting on the evidence, the judge said: “This is the most depraved crime I ever handled in the criminal-justice system in 33 years.” And yet despite the sensational nature of the case, it has only been patchily covered by the media and largely ignored by politicians and activists.
In any other circumstances the brutal murder of a lesbian couple and their son would have provoked widespread outrage – and Reed, Wright and Diambu-Wright would have been tragic household names. But not here. The perpetrator’s trans identity has not only allowed him access to a women-only prison – it also seems to have insulated him from public scrutiny.
The silence from organisations that you’d normally expect to rally to the cause of gay and lesbian rights has been striking. Indeed, just two days after Rivers began his 150-year stretch inside, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) chose to tweet instead about the supposedly unfair treatment of Duane Owen – another trans murderer who had been denied ‘gender-affirming care’ by the state of Florida before his execution. And even the handful of American outlets willing to cover the Rivers trial have politely referred to the murderous man as ‘she’ and ‘her’.
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If no-one talks about it they are less likely to have a Nicola Sturgeon moment where allowing it to happen rightfully causes outrage amongst the majority but taking action to stop it seemingly goes against the wishes of Other Interests. She ended up in a quandary where none should exist. Those Other Interests wield much power it seems.
What exactly are gay and lesbian Rights? Can the rest of the population have them too?
Those rights include; pandering, your own crosswalks, the ability to command a hetero to drop to his knees and whimper and pray at your very appearance; public tax money for various events; your own no-pride parade funded by my taxes; special privileges in education and work; the ability to call everyone nazi’s, racist’s, phobe’s without any repercusion (indeed applause), being ‘righted’ as the most intelligent thing evah; and nominated as the best parent every single year (and winning).
Just a few benes.
Utterly bonkers…I know it’s real but it’s very hard to take in..God knows what future generations will make of this malarkey…..?
Should he commit any crimes against women while inside..whoever made these decisions should be held accountable….
We are truly living in The New Dark Age……
You can read more about this piece of human scum here and how California is the place to be if you’re a psychopathic misogynist who wants to carry on targeting women, even from behind bars! Seriously, if California hasn’t had a mass exodus of sane folk who value their freedom and don’t want their kids being put at risk then there should be. What a godawful place to live!
”Rivers’ “gender identity-based” prison accommodation is the result of California’s SB132, also known as the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act.
The law was signed into effect in January 2021 by Governor Gavin Newsom, and provides inmates housing based on their self-declared gender identity status.
Almost immediately after the law was implemented, California correctional centers were hit with hundreds of transfer requests from male inmates seeking movement into women’s facilities. According to Keep Prisons Single Sex USA, fully one-third of all male inmates who have requested such transfers were registered sex offenders.
The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation has previously confirmed to Reduxx that prison placements and transfer requests are based entirely off of a Gender Identity Questionnaire that can be issued at intake or requested later by inmates at any time during their incarceration.
The Questionnaire is form with a short series of questions in which inmates can declare their pronouns, honorifics, and gender identity.
Male inmates do not need to identify as transgender to request transfer or immediate accommodation in a women’s prison, and can simply identify as gender non-conforming or non-binary.”
https://reduxx.info/breaking-trans-activist-sent-to-womens-prison-to-serve-life-sentence-for-slaughter-of-california-family/
The Daily Sceptic, almost alone among media outlets, accurately uses the term “he” and “male” when referring to men who identify as female. In doing this it is simply giving precedence to the biological reality of sex over the recently created concept of gender identity, as the great majority of the population do.
But it could go further by adopting two other terms which I came across recently, “pretend woman” for “transwoman” and “cosmetic surgery” for “transitioning”.
And shouldn’t we all do the same? In this culture war using our opponents’ language is half way to ceding victory to them.
I prefer mentally ill, pervert, freak, or gender fascist half-wit.
I see your lesbianism and trump it with my trans.
It’s the hierarchy of critical race theory.
I’m sure that in a couple of years I’ll be able to trump your trans with my non binary, gender fluid or something that hasn’t yet been made up but will become the next cause celeb.
The article on the prevalence of stupidity explains why evil is not only tolerated but facilitated in our society.
Sending him to a female prison is beyond stupid!