House of Commons report on Trans Prisoners. Published today.

I particularly note that the index offence of attempted rape did not involve the ability to sustain an erection, and appears to have been more inspired by feelings of frustration and jealousy than sexual desire.

Oh well, that's all right then. I'm sure the victim is relieved.

5. She lives as a woman, is treated as a female and is provided with guaranteed single cell accommodation

They are describing male prison life for Karen. I'd like to know if they are always provided with "guaranteed single cell accommodation" in the female estate? If not I feel there's a double standard there.

The report (actually it’s a briefing paper) was first published a couple of years ago. This is an update.

Yes definitely arran

I think it's this case which makes the sequence clearer: www.mumsnet.com/Talk/womens_rights/3180050-Invited-to-talk-at-the-House-of-Lords

Very full detail here: www.casemine.com/judgement/uk/5a8ff76260d03e7f57eabf57

Oh quite possibly could be.

I think we discussed this quite recently. Isn't this the person who was released early and was invited by Lord Patel to address the House of Lords?

It's sickening. There is no mention or consideration of women in that report.

Males can go into the female estate with/without a GRC. It doesn't matter if they are a rapist, because the prison should treat them as they would a similarly violent woman.

The fucking bastards. Why are they even bothering with reviewing the GRC?

www.newlawjournal.co.uk/content/law-reports-106

Holy fuck that's bad. I wonder whether he only attempted to rape someone because he killed her in the process or whether they were separate incidents? I wonder how much more harm he did before being caught and what's gone on in the decade he's been in a woman's prison?

www.newlawjournal.co.uk/content/law-reports-106

I found the case referred to in the report.
Read it.
It makes me want to scream into a pillow.

Repeal the GRA.
REPEAL IT.

Katara transmen are allowed to choose which estate they go to. The prison guidelines acknowledge that they are unlikely to choose the male estate. Funny that.

The risks to transmen of being placed in the male estate are not considered, of course.

Important to note that the numbers captured do NOT include prisoners with a GRC like the transgender paedophile rapist in the women's estate reported in the media this week.
Who is a different paedophile rapist in women's prison from the one in the media last week. He did not have a GRC.

It's getting hard to keep straight all the transgender paedophile rapists currently in women's prisons at the rate they are hitting the news at the moment.

We have no idea how many GRC holders are imprisoned as they aren't captured in the MOJ numbers. They will all be in women's prisons though.

I was shocked (which doesn't happen much these days) to read in that report that a judge ordered a male prisoner to be transferred to the Female estate because he had a GRC, despite the fact that his crime was attempted rape of a woman... and this happened as far back as 2009.

I'll need to read up on that one.

And then I'll need gin.

Thanks for posting, ImPreCis

It basically says the defining factor for where someone is placed is their preferred ‘gender’, even if that means being a transvestite or ‘not having a GRC or intending to get one.

The report, possibly correctly, focuses on the deaths of two transgender prisoners. It does not elaborate on this, possibly due to confidentiality but the inference is that the suicide risk is greater if people are housed by biological sex rather than gender preference. This only means something if there are no suicides ever among prisoners who are not transgender. Any deaths in custody (or elsewhere) are regrettable of course, but what were the co-morbidities?

The report gives a good indication of how policy and practice have developed. There is an acceptance on face value that housing a transgender prisoner in the desired ‘gender’ estate is a good thing. There is no real consideration of the women on that estate, although a recognition that trans men pose no risk by being placed in the male estate.

The figures of trans prisoners increased greatly between 2016 and 2017. What's the betting they increased even more between 2017 and 2018? I only skimmed the report too, but contains the usual mangling of the language, 'gender' when 'sex' is meant and the wretched 'assigned at birth' as ever.

Thanks for posting this.

I wonder why it has been written.

Also who is the author?

Well, clearly trans prisoner numbers have jumped because the cisnormative justice system is rife with transphobic oppression, and the answer is to release all trans prisoners.