Breitbart – by WARNER TODD HUSTON
Authorities in Washington State believe that a series of murders of prostitutes in 1990 were committed by Washington resident Douglas Perry. Now Perry has been captured and charged with the murders, but Douglas has become “Donna,” a transgender woman who claims that she is not responsible for the murders because Douglas no longer exists.
Donna’s novel defense is that as a male she was prone to violence so she had gender reassignment surgery in Thailand a few years ago in order to purge herself of those violent tendencies. Further, since she is now a woman, she is a wholly different person and therefore she isn’t responsible for what her former male self did.
Donna was arrested for the murders in 2012 after being apprehended on an unrelated weapons charge. Police found that her fingerprints matched what had become a cold case in the murders of the three prostitutes decades ago.
If Donna’s defense were to be accepted by the courts, it could lead to unintended consequences for the transgender community as their former selves could possibly be universally considered mentally ill. This is a diagnosis that people with alternate lifestyles have been working hard to defeat for decades.
LGBT spokesmen warn against accepting Perry’s claims at face value.
“It’s wrong to generalize from this person’s life–it’s not typical of the transgender experience,” New York City psychiatrist Dr. Jack Drescher told ABC News.
In interviews, Perry told police that Douglas never stopped killing, but “Donna stopped it.”
Donna further told authorities that she would not confess to murder because she didn’t do it. Donna also claimed not to know if Douglas killed the prostitutes in 1993. “I don’t know if Doug did or not, it was 20 years ago and I have no idea whether he did or did not,” she said.
Police cite testimony from Donna’s cellmate who said that the transgendered woman made all sorts of admissions in prison, even once saying she was a “sociopath.”
Donna’s central defense, the claim that becoming a woman helped stem her violent tendencies, is disputed by Jack Halberstam, a transgender professor of American and gender studies at University of Southern California.
Halberstam called the defense a “very sketchy and a desperate defense ploy.”
“Even if we as a person are less aggressive once we resolved a gender disorder, it does not absolve the responsibility of killing three women,” the professor said. “As a legal defense, putting away the science, it’s absolute nonsense.”
Follow Warner Todd Huston on Twitter @warnerthuston or email the author at igcolonel@hotmail.com.
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Yeap,… here it is people,.. a perfect example of the kinds of stories you can expect to see from our latest reporting format,.. the “Insanity Locker”.
You can’t even make this kind of stuff up unless you are totally insane.
From The Story: “Perry has been captured and charged with the murders, but Douglas has become “Donna,” a transgender woman who claims that she is not responsible for the murders because Douglas no longer exists.”
WOW,.. I’m sure somewhere in bizarro world,…. this defense makes PERFECT sense.
JD – US Marines – Hmmm,… what planet am I on???
Okay, you’ve got your Insanity Locker. (see the new category)
Now, how do we decide which stories meet the standard? I mean the whole goddamn world has gone insane.
Suggestions?
Just about every story fits that category, but some do stand above the rest. 🙂
Definitely Insanity Locker material.
This is not how redemption or responsibility works. Nice try.
Will we now have laws passed to protect transgender convicts, like the locker room BS going on in the schools now?
hell the locker would be so full every day, wouldn’t make any sense…
Got to, right or incorrect, have a filter…and that is a hard job that Henry and Laura do every day and have for as long as I have been a contributing poster here not too shy of one year….imagine you or i doing that….My Friend, it would not be easy and become more stressing each day….SO I am one to speak up and support this web site for it’s integrity…..and lesson’s already learned. by their hard work. I doubt any of us would be denied a voice were we to offer a seemingly upgrade to this site….Perhaps there are some such ideas out there! My take of the owners, managers of this site, is …they are open minded people…and that is what started it in the first place….Personally, don’t think they have lost it! Either
The fact that he/she’s transgender shows serious mental issues to begin with. Convict him of murder and lock him up in prison. If not lock her up in a mental asylum.
Some people are unbelievably Eff’ed up.
I agree … mental asylum for the physical essence. Never mind the judgement of soul essence. That will be taken care of later.
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The 9th circuit court would likely agree with him/her/it – whatever.
None of them are playing with a full deck either.