'BBC: 'Eleven transgender inmates sexually assaulted in male prisons last year'

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missproportionate · 21/05/2020 12:20

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-52748117

I haven't seen a thread about this but I find it hard to get my head round.

"of 124 sexual assaults in five women's jails over the previous nine years, from 2010 to 2018, seven had been carried out by trans prisoners.'

Also I just can't get the stats right in my head from the way they are quoted. The semantics are twisted in knots, and anyone not familiar with any of this would find it impenetrable.

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DodoPatrol · 21/05/2020 12:34

Are those statistics unexpected?

That is, are a disproportionate number of trans prisoners assaulted in men’s prisons, compared with the number of prisoners assaulted in general?

Are a disproportionate number of offences in women’s prisons committed by male inmates?

The numbers they give don’t seem to add up, so the article itself isn’t much help.

nauticant · 21/05/2020 12:30

People have commented a fair amount about these numbers. Just to give one example of why these bare numbers will tell you nothing is this: would the term "trans prisoners" include male prisoners with a GRC who identify as women or would they be classed as "women prisoners"?

ItsAllGoingToBeFine · 21/05/2020 12:24

If TW are unsafe in male prisons (which I think is what the article is saying?) the answer is not to put them in female prisons.

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