Adam Graham was four years old when, according to his own account of his life, he first began to suspect he might be transgender. ‘I was always hanging about with the girls and always doing make up’, he said. It was not until he was 29, however, that Graham began to openly identify as a woman, taking hormones and changing his appearance.
By that time he had been arrested and charged with two counts of rape.
It is incredible that the sensitivities of convicted rapists are now the subject of so much official sympathy in Scotland
Appearing in court this week, Graham’s new – and putatively ‘real’ – identity took centre stage. Thus it was Isla Bryson, not Adam Graham, who was convicted of raping one woman in Clydebank in 2016 and another in Drumchapel in 2019.
It should be noted, I think, that in some quarters it is considered ‘transphobic’ to even note that Isla Bryson was once Adam Graham.
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