A biological man, who describes himself as a “trans woman”, is accused of raping a woman in a women’s shelter windsorin the province of Ontario, Canada.
According to US broadcaster Fox News and Canadian newspaper Windsor Star, the “trans woman” has been identified as Desiree Anderson, 32, also known as Cody D’Entremont. Desiree was arrested on Tuesday the 18th and turned herself in after her photo was released by local police.
The shelter where the crime under investigation took place takes in poor women or victims of violence. In this case, the victim reported the attack on April 4th. She said she was attacked in her bed by the “trans woman”.
According to the local Windsor Star newspaper, police reported that “the suspect was treated as a woman and should be referred to as a woman”.
According to Fox, a similar case happened in August last year. A “trans woman” identified as Shane Jacob Green has been arrested on two counts of sexual assault at a women’s shelter in Parry Sound, also in the province of Ontario.
In British Columbia, another Canadian province, a woman using a women’s shelter was kicked out after she questioned the policy on accepting “transgender women.” She told the Reduxx portal on condition of anonymity that staff accused her of being “transphobic” when she complained about the presence of biological males at the accommodation and was evicted in July 2020.
Citing the National Post, Fox goes on to report that Canada’s oldest shelter for female rape victims, the Vancouver Rape Relief, had its municipal funding withdrawn in 2019 for refusing to accept biological males who identify as female. transgender.