Mick Hartley

Transitioning: the new-get-out-of-jail-free card. Genevieve Gluck at Reduxx:

A serial pedophile estimated to have committed over 1,000 sex crimes against children has had his community sentence relaxed following his transition to “female.” On November 16, a Supreme Court of Western Australia judge said that the medications taken by Robert Gordon Cummins, 56, provide “a protective factor” and that he could “successfully self-manage the risk of offending.”

Of course he will. He sounds like a responsible type of person. And quite the man of vision, too: while in prison he and two other men devised a scheme to establish a child sex trafficking ring in Thailand on their release. A later scheme he dreamed up involved supervising an orphanage in order to “effectively convert it into a child brothel".

Justice Michael Corboy ruled that a new four-year supervision order be imposed with conditions including “testosterone suppressing treatment.” He noted that the diagnosis of gender dysphoria was “obviously a very significant event,” with his “transition” being “central to the issues” in his case. The judge added that the court should keep Cummins’ gender dysphoria diagnosis and transition “in mind” while considering his risk of re-offending.

Cummins was referred to with feminine pronouns throughout court records and proceedings. Media coverage similarly utilized ‘she/her’ pronouns for Cummins….

Add him to the list of sexual offenders playing the gender dysphoria card.