A transgender rapist who attacked two women while still a man is due to be sentenced on Tuesday.

Isla Bryson, 31, was convicted last month of raping two women: one in Clydebank in 2016; and one in the Drumchapel area of Glasgow in 2019.

The offences were committed while still a man known as Adam Graham.

Following the jury's guilty verdict it emerged that Bryson had enrolled in a beauty therapy course at Ayrshire College's Kilwinning campus while awaiting trial, and had also attempted - without success - to sign up to self-defence classes in Ardrossan for victims of sexual assault.

The trial, at the High Court in Glasgow, heard that Bryson met both the victims online, with prosecutors saying the 31-year-old “preyed” on vulnerable women.

After the jury delivered its guilty verdict last month, judge Lord Scott told Bryson the crimes were “considerable” and said that “a significant sentence is inevitable”.

The case sparked an uproar after Bryson was initially housed in an all-female prison before being moved to the male estate following the outcry.

Scotland’s justice secretary Keith Brown ordered an urgent review of the case and the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) took the decision to halt the movement of all transgender prisoners with a history of violence against women into the female estate.

Bryson is due to be sentenced later today at the High Court in Edinburgh.

The 31-year-old first appeared in court as Adam Graham in 2019 and was later named in court papers the following year – around the time of the decision to transition – as Isla Annie Bryson, formerly known as Adam Graham.

During the trial, the court heard that Bryson was going through the breakdown of a brief, unhappy, marriage and went to stay with the first victim at the victim’s mother’s house in Clydebank in 2016.

Giving evidence on pre-recorded video, the victim, 30, said she was raped for half an hour.

“All I said was ‘no’ over and over and over again,” she said.

“At the time I was so scared. Sick to the stomach. I just didn’t know what was going on.”

The second victim, who gave evidence via live video link, told the court Bryson continued to have sex with her after she told him to stop.

The court heard Bryson entered the victim with “her penis”, and was told to stop because Bryson was “crushing” the victim.

The victim’s police statement said Bryson instead told her to “stay there” because “he (Bryson) wasn’t finished”.

The victim told the court: “I said to stop but he (Bryson) just kept on going, and that’s when I just closed my eyes and I am doing what he wanted to do.”

Giving evidence during the trial, Bryson claimed both women consented to having sex.

Bryson spoke of identifying as transgender at the age of four but not making the decision to transition until the age of 29.

The court heard that Bryson is currently taking hormones and seeking surgery to complete gender reassignment.

Following the trial, and the disclosure that Bryson had spent time as a student in Kilwinning, Ayrshire College confirmed Bryson was enrolled at its campus in the town for three months in 2021, but said the college had no prior knowledge of the charges against them.

It subsequently emerged that Bryson had contacted the Scottish Centre for Personal Safety in Ardrossan in September 2021, just weeks after his identity was changed on court documents from Adam Graham to Isla Bryson.

Centre boss Alan Bell said Bryson, who was believed to have been living in the Three Towns at the time, had claimed to have been bullied, harassed and physically attacked while at college, but had failed the centre's screening process.

Mr Bell said the centre had no way of knowing about the charges against Bryson at the time.