Scottish Rapist Enabled by Gender-Law Reforms

By Madeleine Kearns

Wednesday, January 25, 2023

 

When Adam Graham raped his victim in 2016 and 2019, he had an unambiguously male identity. He had an ex-wife and a Mike Tyson–style facial tattoo. But, after being tried for rape, Adam Graham began identifying as a woman. He changed his name to Isla Bryson.

 

Mr. Graham, now “Ms. Bryson,” met his victims online. The Daily Mail reports how “the first victim recalled repeatedly stating ‘no’ as her ‘muscular’ attacker raped her when the then man got into bed beside her in 2016.” Meanwhile, “the second woman was raped at a flat when they were planning to watch the film Mean Girls in 2019.” Now, the Mail reports, “Bryson appears to be heading to an all-female jail.”

 

This is Bryson now:

Rapists’ requesting access to more potential victims is exactly the sort of scenario that critics of Scotland’s gender reforms have warned about. And yet they were ignored, and a commonsense proposed amendment to prevent sex offenders from changing their gender was rejected.

 

This case is yet another reminder that the U.K. government was right to intervene.