Trans man sexually assaulted lady with a prosthetic penis in a lodge room on her birthday and ‘thrived’ when she tried to push him off, courtroom hears
A transgender man who sexually assaulted a woman with a prosthetic penis ‘thrived’ when she tried to push him off, a court has heard.
The 19-year-old said she was repeatedly slapped, strangled, punched and sexually assaulted during a two-year relationship with Zainab Jamshaid.
Ms Jamshaid was born a woman, but identified as a man during their relationship.
A court heard that the 20-year-old student, who now identifies as a woman again, first assaulted the alleged victim in a hotel room on her birthday and ignored her pleas to stop.
The alleged victim said the pair were staying at a hotel in Woking, Surrey in April 2023.
Speaking in a video interview, she said: ‘I’d got out of the shower. He started kissing me and touching me and stuff like that.
‘Then he started being really aggressive and rough, sexually. He started smacking my face, holding me down by my wrists and shoulders.’
Ms Jamshaid would wear the prosthetic – a specially designed device for transgender men – almost all the time during their relationship, it was heard.
Zainab Jamshaid, pictured on Monday, appeared at Hove Crown Court charged with sexual assault using a prosthetic penis
She said at the start of their relationship the couple had agreed a ‘safe word’ – pink – which they could use if they wanted sexual activities to stop.
The teenager told Hove Crown Court: ‘He started having sex with me and I said “No” and he smacked me in the face five or six times. I said the safe word and he told me to shut up and smacked me in the face.’
She told the court Ms Jamshaid was wearing the strap-on prosthetic throughout the alleged attack.
She said: ‘It was a strap-on penis inside me. When he got off he said: “I didn’t realise you were crying”, like he didn’t do it, like it was my fault despite the fact I told him to get off me so many times.’
It was one of four occasions on which the victim said she was assaulted by Ms Jamshaid.
She alleged that she was also punched and slapped repeatedly over the two years.
She said: ‘He called me a whore, called me a liar. If I went out with people he didn’t like without him, it would affect our relationship. He would start to get nasty. He smacked me in the face.’
The second alleged attack happened later that year in Brighton.
She told the court: ‘It came out of nowhere. He just went to put it in and I said “Pink! No! Pink!”
‘I was trying to get him off me. He liked it, he thrived off of me trying to push him off. I just gave up because he wasn’t going to listen to me.
‘Afterwards he got really angry with me, saying: “You’re acting like I assaulted you” and I said: “You did”.
‘He thought I was trying to spin him into something he wasn’t. He was coercive. It was the worst I’d ever felt.’
She said Ms Jamshaid would repeatedly slap and punch her and call her ‘vile names’.
Ms Jamshaid was born a woman, but identified as a man during their relationship
The last time the teenager was allegedly assaulted in February 2024 in Brighton after she had split up with Ms Jamshaid.
The alleged victim had gone out with friends but received a call from a housemate telling her Ms Jamshaid was at her house.
She returned home and found Ms Jamshaid had smashed up her room, broken a laptop, thrown her clothes around and broken other items.
As Ms Jamshaid was upset and in tears, the alleged victim said the student could sleep in a different room.
She said: ‘I said it’s done. But he said “It’s not done. You don’t have a say in this. We’re together and that’s the end”. He just said “No, you’re mine.”
‘He was trying to kiss me. He started to take my clothes off. He was being really forceful.’
She told the court she said told Ms Jamshaid to stop and used their ‘safe word’ twice but the attack continued.
She said: ‘He then held down my shoulders. It was almost as if I wasn’t there. He started having sex with me.’
The jury was told that after the alleged attack, Ms Jamshaid said: ‘You’re mine, you’re mine.’
The complainant said: ‘I felt like the worst person ever. I’d just gotten to a place where I was strong enough to leave him. I felt so pathetic.’
Earlier the court heard Ms Jamshaid had allegedly imprisoned the woman in a college bathroom for much of the day.
While there, the defendant strangled her with bare hands until she lost consciousness, the court heard.
Ms Jamshaid is charged with numerous sexual offences, assaults, strangulation and coercive and controlling behaviour.
She denies all 14 charges.
The trial continues.
