Thread by @fairplaywomen

WESC want evidence of how GRC impacts women. They need look no further than today’s #womenprisonJR. Proof that having a GRC gets males into female only spaces - including males considered too dangerous to have unsupervised contact with women. /1

The GRA2004 meant the MOJ decided to put high-risk trans prisoners on the female prison estate rather than the male one to give them ‘association with other women’ and to deliver ‘female services’. /2

The GRA2004 meant when the MOJ did it’s equality impact assessment on the protected characteristic of sex they didn’t assess the difference between the male-born ‘females’ and the female prisoners. The adverse impact on women in prison never found its way into the assessment /3

The GRA2004 means that we don’t know how many trans prisoners are in the female estate. Once they get a GRC these male-born prisoners disappear into the female stats. No longer counted as trans at all. /4

So thats 3 examples of how the GRA2004 impacts women TODAY.

The existence of the GRA2004 has stopped women having a prison without male sex offenders, proper impact assessments and accurate data collection.

It’s not ‘just admin’. That line simply won’t wash anymore. /5