UK — East London, England. A creepy man who served prison time for terrorizing the mother of his child with death threats and images of a dead body covered in a shroud has been permitted to stay at a women’s refuge.
44-year-old Mark Addis was arrested in November 2013 and spent six months in prison on remand after repeatedly issuing threats to kill Julie Lane, his female ex-partner and the mother of his child.
Upon release, Mr Addis arrived at his current conclusion that he is a woman. He was homeless, and sought help from the Stonewall Housing Association, which is dedicated to providing housing advice and support for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans-identified individuals. Stonewall referred Mr Addis to St Mungo’s. St Mungo’s allowed Mr Addis to move into one of their hostels, the LGBTQ Project.
While residing at the LGBTQ Project, Mr Addis changed his named to Melissa, and began wearing makeup and apparel designed for women.
However, Mr Addis has not changed on the inside, according to accounts from female residents at East London Women’s Project, a shelter refuge for women that Mr Addis visits each day.
East London Women’s Project is also run by St Mungo’s. St Mungo’s management permits Mr Addis to visit their women’s refuge, despite the fact that they are aware of his conviction for abusing his female intimate partner.
Female residents say Mr Addis has caused the women at the shelter “alarm and distress” due to his aggressive displays of “shouting, crying, threatening violence” in the presence of the “frightened, vulnerable women.” The women say that their multiple complaints to shelter staff have been ignored, and Mr Addis is able to visit daily, meet with his support worker on site, and attend the shelter’s social events.
Meanwhile, Mr Addis no longer resides at the LGBTQ Project. A source told the Mail that he was asked to move out due to his “violence and anti-social behavior.” Mr Addis denies this, claiming that he left because his lease expired.
He also insists that the women at the East London Women’s Project do not mind his visits: “I got on with the girls.”
Karen Ingala-Smith, chief executive of the domestic and sexual violence charity Nia, stated:
Homeless charities helping men who identify as transgender is a good thing but it should not be at the expense of women’s safety, well-being and recovery.
Allowing a male who identifies as transgender with a history of domestic violence to enter what is supposed to be a safe space for women just shows utter contempt for women in that space.
Erin Pizzey, who in 1971 started the world’s first women’s domestic violence hostel in West London, declared:
It’s completely unacceptable to have men who have not gone through any medical transition entering women-only spaces. I believe homeless charities are betraying women by introducing this new policy.
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When he was a man called Mark he was locked up after threatening to kill the mother of his child… today she’s a woman called Melissa and able to roam free at a shelter for female domestic violence victims
Daily Mail
Men who identify as women are being allowed to live in refuge hostels for female victims of domestic and sexual violence – even if they have not undergone sex-change treatment but simply say they want to live as a woman, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Domestic abuser allowed into women’s refuge after identifying as a female
VT
A domestic abuser who made chilling threats to murder the mother of her child was allegedly allowed into a women’s refuge shelter after beginning to identify as female.
What does it take to wake people up? Women are the losers, as usual.
Why do they always do that stupid fish pout all the time?
This person looks ridiculous. He is mocking femininity. How can people not see this as sick? It harms women. Does this person realize pouting and posing makes him look idiotic? Could this person anything but stereotyping what a sick man thinks women are like. He deserves to be away from women at all time and anyone in my opinion.
Um . .. .just who is this creep running from? Aren’t the refuges for those FLEEING violence, not the ones CAUSING violence?
women are not allowed in refugees with very minor offences for the safety of the vulnerable woman so this is outrageous to let this happen has any one thought about the trauma it will cause to these women who have fled for safety from abusive men and some of these women even have children with them too so to put someone with a history of violence’s against women etc. in the same place as these vulnerable women who are supposed to be in a safe place is sickening because the risks of the perpetrator re-offending are extremely high not to mention the fact that most of these trans identity people have not undergone full surgery to fully become a woman so until that has actually taken place no trans identity people should be fully identifying as another sex because this is very misleading and false information so many women have been effected by this and have become the victim off sexual assault or violence in the woman’s toilet’s , woman’s prisons , and now woman’s refugees this is a matter that needs to be re-looked at urgently we are not against trans gender identity in any way possible as we are all equal we just feel so many men in prisons etc. are abusing the system and trying to beat it so they can continue there offending behavior on women as many records have shown that they have .