Thread by @BluskyeAllison

1/ I have to confess that when I heard that male sex offenders were being housed with female prisoners, I thought it was a joke — it isn’t. Then I thought, it must be a mistake — it isn’t.

Male prisoners are being put in with women for their comfort — no one thought about women

https://twitter.com/BluskyeAllison/status/1222842905079033856

2/ I thought that the law had taken a wrong turn, that if we looked at how the state had considered the rights, safety & dignity of women we could correct the wrong turn & correct this obvious & egregious error.

But there was no error: women were simply not considered.

3/ As Professor Michael Biggs’ paper illustrates (embedded in thread ) trans activists were able to convince lawyers & judges to *completely* ignore the rights, safety & dignity of women in ruling that the comfort of trans identified males took priority over imprisoned females.

4/ @NoXYinXXprisons is supporting the forthcoming judicial review brought by a female prisoner who reported being sexually assaulted by a male trans identified prisoner convicted of rape who was imprisoned with her by the state.

Yes, you read that correctly: a male sex offender.

5/ I think this is an outrageous state of affairs (there are so many but this is especially wicked).

I add my voice to all of those who call upon @MoJGovUK, the probation service & the Scottish Prison Service to uphold the single-sex provisions in the Equality Act.

6/ Get males out of women’s prisons.

If the single-sex exemption does not bite here, it is utterly useless & unfit for purpose.

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6.1/ Correction: see: The Transition from Sex to Gender in English Prisons: Human Rights and Queer Theory, by Michael Biggs, May 2020 here👇
osf.io/preprints/soca…