Transgender woman is found guilty of raping two women when she was a man trends now
A transgender has today been convicted of raping two vulnerable women while living as a man.
Isla Bryson was known as Adam Graham when she carried out the violent sex attacks in 2016 and 2019 after attacking the victims she originally met online.
The 31 year-old - who claimed to have had gender issues since the age of four but began transitioning from a man to a woman in 2020 - had denied the accusations. She told jurors any sex was consensual although insisted she did not like sleeping with women.
The first woman recalled repeatedly stating 'no' as her 'muscular' attacker raped her when the then man got into bed beside her in 2016. The second woman was raped at a flat when they were planning to watch the film Mean Girls in 2019.
Bryson was today found guilty of the two rape charges following a trial at the High Court in Glasgow. She denied the charges, saying in evidence she 'would never hurt another human being'.
Bryson had been on bail, but was today remanded in custody by judge Lord Scott until sentencing on February 28 in Stirling. It is not know if she is in a male or female jail.
Isla Bryson, 31, formerly known as Adam Graham, from Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, arrives at the High Court in Glasgow yesterday. Following a six-day trial at the High Court a jury has found the transgender woman guilty of raping two women when she was a man
Isla Bryson, 31, 'preyed' on vulnerable women before she began transitioning
She had first appeared in the dock in July 2019 as Adam Graham with a Mike Tyson-style face tattoo. In high court papers dated 2020, the rapist was then referred to as Annie Bryson.
This was around the time Bryson told jurors she first made the decision to 'transition' from a man to a woman.
At this trial, she was then known as Isla Bryson with jurors told Adam Graham was now her 'dead name' one 'a transgender person was given at birth and no longer uses upon transitioning'.
She had attacked the first victim at a flat in Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire having met on the Badoo dating site while known as Adam.
This was immediately after Bryson's marriage to a woman had ended.
In her evidence, Bryson claimed she had effectively used the 30 year-old for somewhere to stay.
But, the victim told how she had been 'head over heels in
