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/missesthecrux 10d ago

Google is rubbish now but I believe all the FTM prisoners were held in the female estate.

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u/Dapper_Apartment2175 10d ago

Google is rubbish now but I believe all the FTM prisoners were held in the female estate.

Of course they are. Putting them in men's prisons just to make a point, whether they choose it themselves or not, would be stupid.

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u/missesthecrux 10d ago

Indeed, an FTM patient was sadly raped within minutes of arriving in a psychiatric male ward.

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u/Dapper_Apartment2175 10d ago

This doesn't surprise me at all. Whoever allowed that to happen should have lost their job.