This is about the situation in Ireland but thought I would post as it is interesting that some law practitioners are looking at the illogical situation in terms of legal rights. (There was an earlier thread about lawyers in Australia? New Zealand? questioning the right of clinic to start children on puberty blockers.)
^The law is challenging for the courts and the IPS since there is, potentially, a safety issue for women inmates housed alongside a male-bodied prisoner.
Currently, a pre-operative, pre-hormone therapy, male-to-female transgender prisoner is being held in Limerick women’s prison.
This is understood to be the first time that an inmate, registered as male at birth, has been housed in a women’s prison in Ireland.
When before the court last July, the prisoner was in possession of a gender recognition certificate.
It is understood that the prisoner was assigned a high level of monitoring after being convicted of ten counts of sexual assault and one count of cruelty against a child.
The prisoner is accompanied by two officers at all times while in the common areas of the detention facility.^
www.lawsociety.ie/gazette/top-stories/male-bodied-transgender-inmate-housed-with-women-prisoners/