The danger of trans identified male prisoners being housed in women’s prisons has been highlighted recently in the UK, with the Judicial Review Case brought by a female prisoner who claims she was sexually assaulted in Downview Prison by a trans identified male prisoner. 1/5
This prisoner had been convicted of very serious sexual offences against women yet was being held in the general population of the female estate with her in accordance with prison policy.
We have been watching this case closely because both women’s prisons in Ireland 2/5
We have been watching this case closely because both women’s prisons in Ireland 2/5
have each housed trans identified male prisoners with a GRC – the women’s wing of Limerick Prison, which currently houses two convicted trans identified male sex offenders, and the Dóchas Women’s Centre within Mountjoy Prison. 3/5
In this blistering analysis of the judgement, prison expert and Countess regular Gearóid O'Loingsigh @GLoingsigh picks apart the flawed use of argument, logic and jurisprudence, and holds up the inherent disregard for women’s safety for all to see. 4/5
He concludes that the only solution is to repeal the Gender Recognition Act. Those statutory voids in penal policy need to be rectified and women given an explicit right not to share accommodation with men, however they identify. 5/5
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