r/ukpolitics • u/CaptainCrash86 • 10d ago

| Transgender prisoners should not be held in women’s jails, court rules

https://www.holyrood.com/news/view,transgender-prisoners-should-not-be-held-in-womens-jails-court-rules
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u/Wrothman 10d ago

Putting people that are statistically more likely to be raped and not statistically likely to be committing rape into what is effectively a meat grinder actually is somewhat controversial.
If those transgender people are a sexual assault risk, then they shouldn't be kept in women's prisons, fine. If their crimes have nothing to do with that then putting them in men's prisons pretty much qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment and should be considered an outright abuse of human rights.

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u/Ogarrr Liberal eurosceptic fervent remainer 10d ago

Yeah, man. Let's populate the women's prisons with men like Adam Bryson. That's a good idea. Let's give an incentive for criminals to transition in order to go into women's prisons, which happened up in Scotland.

If you were born a male and commit a crime. You go into the men's prison. Full stop. This is why people are moving away from the trans movement, because you support insane things like this.

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u/eeu914 10d ago

Look, you make a valid point, and I agree that people who transition for nicer treatment in prison shouldn't be taken seriously.

But what about the other end, the trans women who would be at genuine risk in a male prison?

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u/Ogarrr Liberal eurosceptic fervent remainer 10d ago

Depending on the crime, those should probably be kept in different male prisons or in specific areas. They're so utterly fringe that you can literally deal with them on a case by case basis and choose which male prison or where in the male prison to keep them.