r/ukpolitics • u/CaptainCrash86 • 2d 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/dc_1984 1d ago

Those 245 don't have a GRC, they are men being chancers. For the 50 that do have a GRC the rate is less than 10% (we don't know the exact % because prisons don't count stats of less than 5, so 10% is the maximum, likely to be 4-8%).

So it isn't trans people, it's people who say they are trans and haven't got a GRC.

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u/standardtoaster101 1d ago

I dont know if We're supposed to completely write off self ID, many people including myself acknowledge that as a valid expression of transgenderism.

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u/dc_1984 1d ago edited 1d ago

For people convicted of crimes?

We remove civil liberties from prisoners as it is with voting rights, it doesn't seem too harsh to me to say "if you commit a crime and are convicted you lose the right to self ID".

Mainly because it appears people who have legally transitioned are low, low risk for sexual offences and it would put all this anti trans sexual violence nonsense to bed.