@CoffeeTeaChocolate
I am just very uncomfortable with male born sexual predators (and murderers) who claim to have a gender identity disorder. Regardless of whether this is one of many disorders (as it appears to be here) or something that is claimed as a defence, there seem to be a number of violent sexual predators who claim a gender identity disorder.
I doubt these people will be miraculously model citizens once transitioned (if they actually do transition) and I don’t want them to self ID into women’s spaces, be included in female crime statistics or be locked up in women’s prisons.
I think you'd be right to be uncomfortable with that and the women whose prison they end up in would be also.
This seems to sum up the problem, the Gender Identity/Trans issue rests entirely on the word of the individual, so there is no way at all to ascertain their motivations (unless you're the person in Ireland who shouts from the rooftops about their intentions and still gets put into a women's prison but hey).
Violent convicted criminals are maybe more likely to take advantage of any possibility to improve or influence their situation so why is anyone in their right mind allowing them to self id into women's prisons?
Obviously this criminal is not at that point yet but if he has stated GI issues, presumably that is not an impossible development.