Britain's first gay surrogate parent has been charged with rape and human trafficking.
Surrogacy enables sex offenders to obtain children.
In 1999, Barrie Drewitt-Barlow and his former partner Tony became the first gay men in the UK to father twins through surrogacy.
The two children, Saffron and Aspen, were born in California, and the United States Supreme Court ruled that the birth certificates would list the two men as parents, meaning the babies would be registered as having two fathers and no mother.
The couple had three more children together, all born using donor eggs and surrogate mothers in the United States.
Drewitt-Barlow divorced Tony after starting a relationship with Scott Hutchinson, who is 25 years younger than he is. Hutchinson was dating Drewitt-Barlow's daughter, Saffron, at the time (though the family now claims Hutchinson was always gay and that Saffron was just helping him hide his sexuality). He has since had three more children via surrogacy with Hutchinson, bringing his total number of children to eight.
Numerous disturbing statements have been made by Drewitt-Barlow which dehumanize not only children but the women whose bodies he purchases. He has boasted about paying a model £50,000 to be an egg donor, because he didn't want his child to be "ugly." When his children were praised for being attractive, he said, "Well, you get what you pay for!"
When asked how the surrogate mothers react to seeing their babies before they are taken away, Drewitt-Barlow said he requires every surrogate he works with to have a c-section so they are not allowed to see them — and for other reasons: "‘They don’t see [the baby], because I always put it [the c-sections] in their contract," he said. "I don’t want my children coming out of a woman’s vagina."
These comments appear to be the tip of the iceberg, as he and Hutchinson have now both been arrested for sex trafficking, assault, and rape.
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I just got a desperate phone call from an inmate at the Maine Women's prison. She is being pressured by the administration to recant her claims of abuse by trans-identifying double murderer Andrew/Andrea Balcer.
These women need help. @SenatorCollins@Repksmith@DAGToddBlanche
I don't understand the reasoning of those who want to change the law re using whichever toilets you want. Surely, if lockable cubicles in women's toilets and changing rooms ensure safety, privacy and dignity, then the same lockable cubicles would protect people in the men's?
I agree. All transgenders need to be treated equally. They need to be equally kept out of ladies only rooms and sports events. If they equally agreed with that they might get equally respected a bit more then they equally do now.
Not all young women. Not by any means. And any 'consensus' is meaningless when the price of disagreement is harassment and social exile. You're not measuring opinion, you're measuring fear.
Planet Fitness prioritizes predators over the safety of women and girls. This organization is a danger to women due to its reckless policy. @PlanetFitness doesn't believe women have the right to be uncomfortable with men like this in their locker rooms. They would rather punish women than hurt the feelings of s*x offenders.
It’s always when funny when people go with “Actually, My Culture has always been tolerant of gays/trans. Just look at our ancient traditions of castration and boy prostitutes.”
Trans people are not a historically oppressed group because they are not a group and they have never been oppressed. There is no history of discriminatory state action against them. There are no rights they don't have. Their only grievance is the existence of sex segregated facilities designed for the safety and privacy of women. What the transgender movement calls "rights" are imperious demands to allow anyone who claims to be something they are not to violate sex-based boundaries and coerce others to affirm them as they thing they are not, inherently an assault on the civil rights and liberties of others that masquerades as a civil right belonging to themselves and as a psychic necessity they require for their survival, which in turn serves as a pretext for threatening suicide and committing violence in pursuit of that alleged imperative to survival.
They are a psychiatric diagnosis that was inflated into an astroturfed identity category in the last thirty years by a small cabal of wealthy male sex fetishists who wanted to cross-dress full time and conspired to brainwash a subpopulation of autistic and gender nonconforming children into medically harming themselves with drugs that stopped their maturation, creating an army of hostages that could be used to blackmail the state into coercing the whole world into granting their imperious demands. Along the way, this cabal corrupted medicine and science and law, turning each of these institutions into a font of misinformation in the service of trans activists goals. Literally nothing that issues from these discourses is true, from denials that men have athletic advantages over women to claims that blocking the puberty of children has ever had an evidence base.
Treating any of this like it is real, like it is a civil rights movement, inexorably will result in the infliction of a cascade of absurdities and cruelties on actual vulnerable populations -- woman and children -- above all those confused children who are being brainwashed from the earliest age the falsehood that any of them can change sex.
Jeff Bezos thinks people are ‘vilifying the rich.’ Bro, you’re one of the richest people on earth and 1/3 of your warehouse workers rely on government assistance for basic needs like food and rent. You ARE the villain.
This is Bill Gates $645 million megayacht.
You know, the guy who constantly lectures you about needing to reduce your carbon footprint by eating fake meat and getting rid of your gas car.
Yeah, that guy.
Thomas Massie has lost his congressional seat against a primary opponent whose Israel lobby funding made the race the most expensive House of Representatives primary in history. Massie has been a rare Republican opponent of Israeli abuses on Capitol Hill.
The spending on Massie’s ouster topped out at a staggering $32 million when all was said and done. The second- and third-most expensive House primary races were also heavily slanted by Israel lobby funding, with AIPAC pouring millions into toppling progressive Democrats Cori Bush and Jamaal Bowman.
Americans just watched the Israel lobby openly manipulate yet another election, and then in like two weeks they’re going to hear their government tell them they need to regime change another foreign country to bring “democracy” to its people. Americans themselves do not have democracy.
The ceasefire with Iran is tenuous and could end at any time. Washington is currently drumming up ridiculously transparent pretexts to justify attacking Cuba. And you just know as soon as the bombs start falling on whatever country they’re going to fall on, Americans will be told this is a good thing because it will bring freedom and democracy to whatever population is getting ripped apart by military explosives.
It’s just so silly how often the US propaganda machine bangs on about “democracy” while vast fortunes are poured into slanting the American electoral process to advance the agendas of plutocrats and special interest groups.
Let’s bring democracy to the Iraqi people! Oh no, the Russians are interfering in our democracy!
And meanwhile nothing of the sort actually exists in America. When the elections go toward whoever can afford to spend the most on manipulating and deceiving the public into voting their way, that’s not democracy. That’s plutocracy.
The rich buy up news outlets and social media platforms, pour funding into think tanks and lobby groups, and sponsor the primary campaigns of anyone who disagrees with them, and in so doing they are able to exert enough influence to get the public to vote in whatever way advances their agendas.
That’s why Americans have a joke of a minimum wage and no normal healthcare system. It’s why corporations are allowed to exploit the working class and pollute the environment without consequence. It’s why AI is being shoved down our throats with zero regulation while it consumes our clean water and takes our jobs. And it’s why American-made bombs are still falling in Lebanon and Gaza.
The rich and powerful are going to keep doing this until they are made to stop. They’re going to keep using their wealth and influence to manipulate public behavior until people stop allowing them to. You can’t vote this problem away, because they control the votes.
Forget about bringing democracy to Cuba. Try bringing democracy to the United States.
What's being described here is existential anxiety stemming from having too much time on your hands and no real struggle. The survival brain hasnt adopted to the idle Western way of life. He cant explain the feeling of "WRONG BODY" because it makes no sense.
Nobody gets to choose their own avatar. Stop obsessing over yourself and find something meaningful to do.
This is Eris Montano. He's in a women's shelter in Brooklyn sharing a room with 9 women.
If you think homeless woman should be forced to share a room with a man with a lactation fetish, you have no respect for vulnerable women.
We tried the “just be polite” route, Rhea. Five minutes later, these men were demanding to get naked with our daughters in locker rooms, occupy jail cells with vulnerable women, and breastfeed infants. The “just be nice” demand is what has gotten women and girls hurt or killed since the beginning of time. So to you I say, FUC$ NO.