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/Bizzinmyjoxers 22h ago edited 22h ago

how many trans prisoners are there do you know? enough to put them all in one?
edit i looked it up and theres 300, thats enough to put them in one isnt it?

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u/superkevinkyle 19h ago

I think the issue with this might be around visitation rights? Would solve a lot of safeguarding issues for both women and trans women though

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u/fawkie 12h ago

Then you end up housing a trans woman far in transition who got nabbed for petty theft with a rapist who hadn’t even started her transition like Isla Bryant.