🪡 A speech yesterday evening on an amendment to the #PoliceCrimeBill, which would protect women’s single-sex spaces in prisons while also sensitively managing challenges faced by trans prisoners - the government didn’t take the amendment... (1/6)
🪡 I read out a few tweets from people criticising the idea that female prisoners would be asked to share space with male sex offenders who self-identified as women. The MOJ says that the system is working well, I’m not so sure... (2/6)
🪡 Quite often the way in which legislation or advice talks about the situation of single-sex spaces in prisons prioritises the feelings and concerns of trans prisoners, leaving women’s issues as a secondary consideration... (3/6)
🪡 There are serious concerns about how trans prisoners are kept safe & protected - but this is not just a trans issue. Problems with overcrowding etc have led to many prisoners in the male estate suffering violent bullying & sexual assault... (4/6)
🪡 In a tolerant society, people must be free to express their gender identity however they like - but this is not the same as changing your sex. The reason I’m using ‘male’ and ‘female’ is because sex and gender are distinct - biological distinction is important... (5/6)
🪡 The rights of transgender women cannot be used to sideline women’s right to single-sex provision - a hard won right that I as a woman am not prepared to sell out for political expediency. There are surely tolerant solutions to this that don't ditch women's rights. (6/6)
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