Self-Castration and TERF-Punching: Trans Rights are What Sort of Rights?

“I was gonna come here and be really fluffy and be really nice and say yeah be really lovely and queer and gay… Nah, if you see a TERF, punch them in the fucking face.” —Sarah Jane Baker

“It was an impulsive decision that I made to take a prison razor blade at 2 o’clock in the morning and to remove my own testicles.” —Sarah Jane Baker

Sarah Jane Baker, formerly Alan Baker, threatening women at a trans rally

A Metropolitan Police spokesman told the Daily Mail, “A 53-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of incitement to violence. She has been taken into custody.” Sarah Jane Baker, who likes to brag about being “the UK’s longest serving transgender prisoner,” as well as working as a highly-paid sex worker (he still has his penis despite being castrated), is not a woman. Baker spent thirty years in prison for the kidnapping and torture of his stepmother’s brother—and, while he was there, the attempted murder of a fellow prisoner. Baker, who has admitted to drug dealing and sex work as well while behind bars, and who had prior robbery convictions before the kidnapping and torture charge, was released into the general population in 2019 after authorities provided him with estrogen and a £10,000 (around 13,000 in US dollars) “sex change” operation—all at the taxpayer’s expense. 

Baker, who admits to being diagnosed with a personality disorder (borderline) that features impulsivity, has been arrested again, this time for calling for violence against women critical of gender ideology at a “trans pride” rally in London. This is who Baker was referring by “TERF,” i.e., trans-exclusionary radical feminist, a derogatory term used by trans activists to incite violence against feminists and lesbians defending sex-based rights. As he was being arrested, Baker chanted the slogan “Trans rights are human rights.” “Trans rights” is a propaganda term designed to manufacture the appearance that those identifying as such are deprived of rights recognized for other individuals. Baker and his ilk are often called TRAs, or trans right activists, because of this claim. But what rights do trans-identifying people have that others don’t have? I do not have the right as a man to invade women’s spaces. However does identifying as a woman change anything? It can’t if reason prevails.

Baker’s defenders, for example Peter Tatchell, an apologists for pedophilia whom the press identifies as a “human rights campaigner,” have said that one person doesn’t represent the crowd. Baker doesn’t speak for all TRAs, we are told. But I have seen video of the rally and the crowd cheers Baker on. I share it above. Baker is seen waving an anarchist flag and wear the pink and blue trans flag as a cape. Baker is not alone in inciting violence against women; I have seen numerous videos of activists calling for violence against women—and many videos of activists physically assaulting women and men in the name of “trans rights.” Little is done in these cases by authorities. In fact, the Metropolitan Police had previously declined to investigate Baker despite receiving multiple reports from concerned women. They were compelled to reopen the case after a concerted effort by the public to force the police to take action.

Although the construct “trans rights,” is a propaganda term, rooted in the myth of gender identity, the sex-based rights of women are very real, recognized because of significant grouped differences between males and females, as well as the thousands of years of male predation on women with the rise of patriarchy. The rights that are being violated in this struggle include the right of women to have spaces where they can be safe from the presence of males. Baker, like many trans women (see the video What is a Woman: Wrong Answers Only), are misogynists whose existence is consumed by intent to hurt women and erode their rights. This even extends to the trans women themselves who make videos asking viewers to choke them, punch them, and rape them.

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Andrew Austin

Andrew Austin is on the faculty of Democracy and Justice Studies and Sociology at the University of Wisconsin—Green Bay. He has published numerous articles, essays, and reviews in books, encyclopedia, journals, and newspapers.

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