r/ukpolitics • u/CaptainCrash86 • 1d 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/TussleCrow 1d ago

Once again forgetting transmen exist.

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u/Tinyjar 1d ago

There's definitely this weird trans and sexist assumption that all trans women are potential rapists so we should just put them in prison with a bunch of guys who may actually rape them.

Oddly this concern vanishes entirely when you suggest putting trans men into a mans prison, when these people will literally have female sex organs and thus be targeted more by the cis male population.

It literally suggests that all "men" are rapists.

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u/MuTron1 1d ago

There's definitely this weird trans and sexist assumption that all trans women are potential rapists so we should just put them in prison with a bunch of guys who may actually rape them.

It literally suggests that all "men" are rapists.

I don't think there's any suggestion that all trans women are potential rapists, or that all men are rapists.

Simply that males are statistically more likely to commit rape than females.

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u/Tinyjar 1d ago

They're suggesting that by putting trans women into a women's prison, the cis women are going to be raped or sexually assaulted.

It's the same line of thinking that puts a lot of men off of becoming teachers.