CARDIFF, Wales (LifeSiteNews) — A “transgender woman” has been given a suspended sentence that will keep him out of prison despite physically assaulting two partners within days of each other on the grounds that he would be “vulnerable” behind bars.
The Telegraph reported that 37-year-old “April” Welsh, who has lived as a “woman” for 20 years and was the subject of a 2019 television documentary on “transitioning,” was charged with assault after he “drunkenly throttled one partner, pushing her to the floor before punching and kicking her,” and “attacked a second girlfriend just weeks later – kicking her in the face after again knocking her to the floor.”
Welsh, who already had a domestic violence conviction from another incident, pled guilty to assault causing bodily harm, but defense attorney Harry Baker argued that his client “expressed remorse having got involved in yet another incident,” had complied with the terms of his previous suspended sentence, was working to reduce his alcohol abuse, and should be given a non-custodial sentence as he would be “vulnerable” if given immediate custody, ITV News added.
“This was a sustained attack on [the victim] and it’s clear from the statements you had been drinking heavily that day,” Judge Hywel James said. “On the door being opened, you attacked her with hands around her neck, pushed her to the floor and punched and kicked her. I have seen the photographs of her injuries and they show cuts, bruises and a swollen ear. Two months after this you were involved in a similar incident with another partner. That’s a matter that has been dealt with, but it shows a pattern of offending.”
Nevertheless, James agreed to a 12-month suspension of Welsh’s 21-week sentence while also ordering him to fulfill a 15-day rehabilitation activity requirement.
Societal indulgence of “transgender identity” poses a range of difficulties for criminal justice, given prisons are segregated by biological sex. In recent years, there has been growing concern around the world over placing men who claim to be women in female prison populations, which has proven to be a means of both securing lighter treatment during incarceration and gaining easy access to women to prey upon. Welsh’s situation illustrates that transgender status also has the potential to be exploited to avoid incarceration entirely in some cases.
In May, conservative investigative journalist James O’Keefe released an interview with U.S. Federal Bureau of Prisons psychologist Dr. Linda Noelle, who says that “male and female prisoners “both play the victim card” to obtain gender “reassignment” surgeries at taxpayer expense. “And then they go through [the far-left American Civil Liberties Union], and then the ACLU sues the [U.S. Department of Justice]” when demands for subsidized transition procedures are initially rejected, Noelle told O’Keefe. “And the DOJ, unfortunately, under Merrick Garland, it rolls over. It doesn’t go through the courts, so they just pay people off.”