A transwoman jailed for raping a woman was referred to as “she” during his sentencing hearing by barristers and the judge, despite his victim using male pronouns to describe how “he took away my trust in people and myself”, reports the Telegraph.
Lexi Secker, 35, was convicted of rape after a four-day trial at Swindon Crown Court in June.
The court heard Secker was living as a man when the attack took place after a night out in Blunsdon, Wiltshire, in April 2023. The force has since confirmed that the rape was recorded as being committed by a man.
Usually the sex of a defendant recorded by the police is used throughout the stages of the criminal justice system.
This means the sex first recorded by police will mirror what is on court records and in criminal justice data relating to charges, offences and convictions. As a result, the name Alexander Secker was on Swindon Crown Court’s list for the case.
However, throughout the sentencing hearing, barristers and the judge referred to the defendant as “Lexi Secker”, “Ms Secker” and “she”.
This was despite the woman raped by Secker using male pronouns and the name “Alex” to describe the defendant in a victim personal statement,
She said: “He took away my trust in people and myself. The assault consumed me with shame and fear.”
The woman, who attended court in person to see Alex sentenced, said she had experienced “unbearable anxiety, shame and fear” since the attack.
How did we get here? It starts in the institutions.
Take the shocking case of FSU member and Open University (OU) law lecturer Dr Almut Gadow. She was brave enough to exercise her academic freedom and question an EDI diktat that criminal law tutors must “liberate the curriculum” by introducing diverse gender identities and teaching students to use offenders’ preferred pronouns.
And yet, managers described the series of important questions Dr Gadow put to them regarding the educational integrity of this initiative as “unreasonable”, claiming she had created an environment which “isn’t inclusive, trans-friendly or respectful”.
Just months later, Dr Gadow was dismissed. The fact that she dared to approach gender ideology as a fallible theory rather than as unquestionable dogma was cited as a reason for her dismissal.
With the FSU’s help, Dr Gadow is fighting back, bringing an employment tribunal claim against the OU arguing that she was harassed, discriminated against, and unfairly dismissed because she rejects gender ideology and believes in academic freedom.
Now she needs your support – click the link, join the fight back against the onslaught of institutional initiatives which erase the language of womanhood and prioritise trans inclusion to the detriment of women’s rights.
