Stephen Ireland came to my attention due to his harassment of British author J K Rowling, she of the Harry Potter series fame. Miss Rowling is very much a leftist, and a supporter of homosexuals. She even declared Albus Dumbledore, the fictitious headmaster of the fictitious Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry in her series to be homosexual, even though that had never been written or implied in the actual series.

Yes, I’ve read all of the Harry Potter series!

But that wasn’t good enough for some on the left, because she also realized that, while she thoroughly supported homosexuals, the idea that people could actually change their sex was too cockamamie for even an author writing about magic spells to be believed. She was labeled a TERF, Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist, a term which was originally a politically neutral description, but which has become enough of a pejorative that the Associated Press Stylebook notified writers on Twitter — I refuse to call it 𝕏 — that TERF, along with “gender-critical” should not be used.

As we have noted previously, bad causes attract bad people, which naturally includes Mr Iraland. From The British Broadcasting Company:

Pride group founder jailed for rape of boy, 12

Monday, June 30, 2025

A man has been jailed for 24 years for raping an “extremely vulnerable” 12-year-old boy after the pair met on a dating app.

A 12-year-old on a dating app?

Stephen Ireland, 41, who co-founded Pride in Surrey in 2018, raped the child at the flat he shared with his then-partner and co-defendant David Sutton, 27, in Addlestone on 19 April 2024 after messaging on Grindr.

The internal hyperlink was not in the original, but was added by me. Grindr, which I shall not link, describes itself as “the world’s largest social networking app for gay, bi, trans, and queer people.”

Ireland was also sentenced to a further six years on extended licence, while Sutton was jailed for four-and-a-half years for making indecent photographs of children and possession of an extreme pornographic image.

At Guildford Crown Court on Monday, Judge Patricia Lees said Ireland “took advantage” of a vulnerable child.

The boy – referred to in court as Child A – who had been reported missing at the time, told police they had sex in the flat, smoked a bong which was later found to have contained methamphetamine, and that pornography was played on a laptop.

The court heard the boy had initially told Ireland he was aged 17 – but when he later claimed to be aged 13, Ireland replied: “OK – we just have to keep it a secret.”

The age of sexual consent is 17 in the United Kingdom, but even if Mr Ireland believed the boy to be 17, he was 40 at the time, and a 40-year-old man f(ornicating) a 17-year-old, whether male or female, will always be seen as a pervert. We have previously noted the urban slang term chickenhawk, older males who prefer younger boys as sex partners.

“Your response was telling,” Judge Lees told Ireland, who sat in the dock dressed in a large red T-shirt and showed no emotions throughout the hearing.

“Far from finding that repugnant, you found that exciting, and sought to do it again.”

There’s significantly more at the original, including details about how Messrs Ireland and Sutton conspired to keep getting underaged boys for sex. This wasn’t a case of just two homosexual males finding each other, but two chickenhawks finding each other. That Mr Ireland continually harassed Miss Rowling is unsurprising: perverts are rarely limited to only one perversion! Given that Mr Ireland is listed as the founder of Pride in Surrey, one wonders just what his motivations in that were.