The case of the murderer and rapist who now calls herself Lorena (and her intention to "ask for her transfer to a women's prison")

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"Sometimes she has hinted that she is going to request her transfer to a women's prison.

She would have to officially request it and she hasn't done it yet, but she has hinted at it on several occasions ».

The mother of Lorena Robaina Santana, formerly Jonathan by her colloquial name, attends 'Crónica' from her Canarian home in Betancuria to admit that her daughter has considered changing centers to serve her sentence in another more appropriate to her current sexual identity.

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It was 2018. He did to her in this way what he had threatened to do to at least one other woman, this one a minor, among the many whom he had harassed accumulating complaints and convictions.

Up to 10 different mobiles were intervened with which he carried out her practices.

And that her declaration of being trans, her identity as Lorena, has been questioned because she made it in full court without anyone from her family, except her mother, who continues to support her, having seen before any hint of her newly announced sexual identity.

Last Tuesday, the Provincial Court informed the family of

, the murdered young woman, that the liquidation of Jonathan's sentence was not going to take place until 2056, but a few hours before his case had come up for public discussion because the writer

she had spread a thread on Twitter in which she was shocked by many things.

The writer used information from Cadena SER on October 20 entitled "The Supreme Court lowers the sentence of a young woman who killed her cousin with 30 hammer blows by two years" to criticize that this means of communication spoke directly of Lorena before Jonathan in feminine and to highlight aspects of the Trans law that seemed inadmissible to him.

As if Lorena's new identity was taken for granted just because she said so, without any prior hormonal treatment or operation, at a time when it was legally convenient for her;

that she was allowed to wear feminine clothes and shower apart from the other inmates or that she had the chance to enter a women's prison when she, as she wrote,

«Sex offenders are recidivists and are not curable and this is something admitted by psychologists, psychiatrists or criminologists».

«Is it fair that the word of a man who identifies himself as a woman is above the rights and safety of hundreds of inmates who will be forced to live with this person?

Is this typical of a feminist government? », Etxebarría wondered rhetorically, among other things, on her social networks.

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We knew it, I, her grandmother and her psychologist, "says Lorena's mother, formerly Jonathan, to 'Crónica'.

She visits him in the Lanzarote men's prison and assures that she has not detected any change in his clothing, says that "there are other people in his circumstances" and that he is not having problems, that "he is respected" inside the prison .

-You who know him see him prepared to go to a women's prison, doesn't he seem dangerous for the inmates?

-Perhaps not at the moment.

You have to let time pass.

I don't know what went through his head with her cousin.

She wouldn't attack them.

It wasn't just her cousin.

But they are trying.

I don't know, because I'm not a specialist.

The mother prefers not to specify what type of treatment Lorena

is receiving before Jonathan.

If he is taking hormones or is going to have an operation, or if he is simply trying to find a medical solution, if there is one, to the perverse and cruel behavior that made him kill Vanessa - the cousin who always showed love for him the most and who better endured his violent outbursts-and abusing other women.

Vanessa's parents, who raised the boy Jonathan until he was 21 years old with which he so brutally killed her, are in no doubt.

"We take great care of him, we were with him every day and he never said he wanted to be a woman."

"Taking him with imprisoned women would be like putting the fox in the chicken coop," says Mauro Santana, the victim's father.

One day in the middle of the trial Jonathan, "small, self-conscious", according to Vanessa's family, appeared with his usual short hair, but with a pingo on top of his head.

His defense reported that he had to be called Lorena and that the prison authorities indicated so.

The national Trans law was about to be passed, but not yet.

Yes, the Canarian legislation had done so two days before in this regard.

Vanessa's parents saw it as a defense strategy that thus admitted it before the Court.

: Since Lorena was not attracted to women because she was a woman, she could not have been the one to rape her cousin while she was dying.

This argument was useless then and it was useless before the Supreme Court in October.

The two-year sentence reduction that the high court ruled had nothing to do with her sexual condition.

Penitentiary Institutions did not want to provide any information to 'Crónica' about Lorena before Jonathan.

They claim they do not even have the number of transgender people who are admitted to women's prisons.

Penitentiary sources limit themselves to pointing out that

, no medical report or any surgical modification of appearance was necessary, to rectify the data on the sex.

Another thing is the request to change the venue

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For this to occur, medical and psychosocial reports are prepared in which both the transsexualization processes followed by the inmate and the possible presence of "gender dysphoria" or the absence of "personality disorders" are analyzed.

These are requirements that are also applied in other countries but that, however, have not prevented atrocious situations.

In England (where there are 125 transgender people in prisons, 60 of them for sexual crimes and 25 of them in women's prisons) the

case scandalized public opinion.

White, 52, dressed as a woman, wore makeup and self-identified as transgender.

to a women's prison.

The scandal did not serve, however, for the British Supreme Court to change the rules.

In a sentence, he assured that not housing trans women in female prisons would be "impermissibly ignoring their right to live in the gender they have chosen."

Nor have the multiple cases in the US caused changes, although more care has been taken when determining whether a non-operated or hormonal trans can live with female inmates.

Lucía Etxebarria, who in the same thread pointed out in an incomprehensible way the journalist from Cadena SER who published the news in the terms reported, also brought up other questionable aspects of trans legislation.

She complained that she

about her status as a woman: "Do you really believe that this person's word should be above my freedom of expression?

Do you think this law or the one that has reduced the sentences of 130 sexual offenders are progressive laws?

With that and with Lorena's reflections before Jonathan on her next destination, the controversy is served.

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