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. Bryson insists that her journey towards her new self is not yet complete: ‘I obviously want all the surgery the NHS can provide’ she told the court.

Bryson has reportedly been remanded in custody, pending sentencing, at Cornton Vale. Thus, extraordinarily, a convicted male rapist is now housed at a woman’s prison (albeit in a ‘specialist’ unit there). It may be that a risk assessment concludes Bryson could not safely be incarcerated on the male estate but it seems no assessment has been made of the risk Bryson poses to female inmates if housed at Cornton Vale. As a matter of priorities, this seems telling.

It is amazing how often ‘something which will not happen’ does, in fact, occur. It is even more incredible, however, that the sensitivities of convicted rapists are now the subject of so much official sympathy in Scotland. This is a sufficiently hard and ugly truth that it is considered unseemly to note such things. Be that as it may, it is where we now are.

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