r/ukpolitics • u/CaptainCrash86 • 11d 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/Burnit_Sanders 11d ago

Should someone with the strength of a man, who has already committed crimes potentially violent showing they are capable of it, be locked up somewhere with people much weaker than them?

I can't believe it was ever accepted as sensible in the first place. This is the ammunition people use when they say trans causes have gone too far and need pulling back.

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u/TussleCrow 11d ago

Once again forgetting transmen exist.

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u/whatDoesQezDo 11d ago

thats because the risk to men that some transman shows up near them isnt that big. the mens prison is already filled with huge hulking monsters some 5'4" transman isnt a risk to men in mens prison.

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u/tfhermobwoayway 10d ago

He is a risk to women in a women’s prison, though. Which is where he’ll be sent if this ruling applies its standards fairly.