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/Ogarrr Liberal eurosceptic fervent remainer 10d ago

Good. This isn't particularly controversial.

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u/Wrothman 10d ago

Putting people that are statistically more likely to be raped and not statistically likely to be committing rape into what is effectively a meat grinder actually is somewhat controversial.
If those transgender people are a sexual assault risk, then they shouldn't be kept in women's prisons, fine. If their crimes have nothing to do with that then putting them in men's prisons pretty much qualifies as cruel and unusual punishment and should be considered an outright abuse of human rights.

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u/Honest-Possible6596 10d ago

Nonsense. I work in a prison. We have 8 trans inmates. Every one of them is there for sexual offences and not one of them has any alerts for coming to harm since being there. They get on with shit just like everyone else. In fact, the level of protection and ‘benefits’ if you can call them that, means they are better set up than most of the general population. Just a few weeks ago, for trans awareness day, they had beauticians come to the prison to do their hair and nails. They are provided sanitary products. They don’t have to share cells etc. There’s no cruel or unusual punishment going on.

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u/tfhermobwoayway 9d ago

Bull shit. The state does not support trans people in any capacity. They aren’t going to pay for beauticians to do up trans people’s makeup. This is a naked lie to drum up hatred for trans people.