A transgender woman has been found guilty of raping two women when she was a man.

Isla Bryson, 31, from Clydebank, committed the crimes before she transitioned and when she was known by the “dead name” Adam Graham.

Following a six-day trial at the High Court in Glasgow, a jury found Bryson guilty of raping two women: one in Clydebank in 2016 and one in Drumchapel in 2019.

She met both her victims online, with prosecutors saying she “preyed” on vulnerable women.

Bryson denied the charges, saying in evidence she “would never hurt another human being”.

After less than a day of deliberation, a jury found her guilty of both rape charges.

Addressing Bryson in the dock on Tuesday, judge Lord Scott said: “You have been convicted by the jury of two extremely serious charges; those being charges of rape.”

He told her the crimes are “considerable” and that “a significant sentence is inevitable”.

Bryson’s bail was revoked and she has been remanded in custody until February 28 to allow Lord Scott to gather “as much information as possible” on her before deciding her sentencing.

The court heard Bryson was going through the breakdown of an unhappy, brief marriage when she went to stay with her first victim at the victim’s mother’s house in Clydebank in 2016.

Giving evidence on pre-recorded video, one alleged victim, 30, said she was raped for half-an-hour while they were in bed at her mother’s home in Clydebank in 2016.

“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.”

She said the accused later threatened her family with harm if she told anyone.

The witness, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said after the alleged rape they both fell asleep and did not speak until the morning as she was “scared”.

She denied they spoke about redecorating her mother’s kitchen immediately afterwards. She also denied initiating sexual contact and kissing the accused goodnight following the alleged rape.

She said they spent the following day together and redecorated her mother’s kitchen.

The witness said she spoke to police days later after telling her sister.

The second alleged victim told the court the accused continued to have sex with her after she said stop.

Giving evidence via live video-link, the 34-year-old said they met on the social media app Bigo, where the accused was named DJ Blade.

She said they met days after chatting and the day after first meeting in June 2019, they were at her home in Drumchapel watching soaps.

She told the court she suggested they watch TV in the bedroom and she asked the accused to wait while she changed into her pyjamas.

She said the accused took his clothes off and removed her pyjama bottoms to perform a sex act she consented to, but she told him to stop as he was biting her.

The court heard from her police statement that he entered her and she told him to stop as he was “crushing” her.

The statement said the accused told her to “stay there” because he “wasn’t finished”.

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

Closing the Crown case on Friday, advocate depute John Keenan withdrew charges that Bryson attempted to defeat the ends of justice by asking the first alleged victim to wash the sheets, and of punching the second alleged victim, and she was acquitted of the two charges.

Bryson told the court that she knew she was transgender at the age of four but did not make the decision to transition until she was 29, and is currently taking hormones and seeking surgery to complete gender reassignment.

Giving evidence as the first defence witness on Friday, she told the court that she was struggling with her sexuality and having issues emotionally when she met the first alleged victim in 2016.

Bryson went to stay with the victim, whom she met online, after leaving a brief, unhappy marriage.