Ex prison officer guilty of possession of CSA images referred to Transgender Case Board

https://reduxx.info/exclusive-trans-pedophile-cared-for-children-in-community-groomed-a-young-mother/

I find the focus on those with sex offence convictions - as if all other men are safe round women - a bit worrying. We know that the vast majority of sex offences do not lead to convictions, there’s just no way to tell who has committed a sex offence. Of course those with sex offence convictions must never be in the female estate, but I worry this leads to a false sense of confidence that other prisoners are safe.

Just to add to the above - rememeber Lisa Nandy absolutely thinks Lexi Rose should be in the female estate. However bad the Tories are on this I just remind myself how much worse Labour (or worse still Labour in coallition with the Greens, LibDems or SNP!!) will be.

To be fair - the change in the placing of trans prisoners has now started. From today's Telegraph. "Trans woman convicted of rape to be jailed in a male prison
Lexi-Rose Crawford, born a man called Dominic Risden, will serve a nine-year sentence at men’s jail following recent guidance from the MoJ"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/10/transwoman-convicted-rape-jailed-male-prison/

On this occasion the perpertrator no longer has a penis. Will this effect where they end up?

This should be shocking but sadly, it’s the same story over and over again in all sorts of circumstances - only one of the 9 protected characteristics attracts all the special fuss.

Pleased to have you on FWR to answer some of our speculations!

Thanks Pony How many of those people are there representing the interests of the female inmates? And of those, are they only connected to the actual prison?

Do you they have any outside representation?

I understand at least one of the male prisons on east coast is building a transgender wing to house them

Thank you PonyPatter44. That's a relief. Although, (as I'm cynical about all this) isn't it amazing how out of all the vulnerable groups in prison, only the male born sacred caste get their demands to access more victims even considered? 🙄

Thank you PonyPatter44. Does the board sit before or after sentence?

Don't get me started on why similar boards are not convened for other protected characteristics. I sat on a TG board at the same time that I was managing a physically disabled offender who was being held in a cell totally unsuitable for his needs. Noone convened a board for him.

Anyway....the board will be internal. It will include senior management from the prison, offender managers, probation, occasionally the police, and one or two specialist senior managers from the Prison Service, plus the prisoner. It is not a circus (though some prisoners try to make it so) and no outside agencies are involved, because its an internal Prison service decision.

Shocking re the community sentences when those men were jailed for the Viking or whatever coins.

I would imagine an exemption if the person transitioned pre-puberty, or had a chromosomal disorder, fully "presented as female" whatever that means, and only ever offended against men, and was thought to be no risk to women at all.

The thing is, the exemptions specifically mention sex offenders.

*A ban on trans women with male genitalia who are violent or sexual offenders serving sentences in female prisons came into force earlier this year.^
Exemptions will only be made in the "most exceptional" cases and with the approval of ministers, the government said.'

Tbh, the sad part is that with the number of images identified, prison may not even be a likely outcome. 85 images across A, B & C even with 100 extreme images - I've seen similar get community sentences, especially with a previous clean record.

It's unclear from the Reduxx article (which is beautifully researched,) whether the offences took place whilst employed as a PO, which could be an aggravating factor, but might not turn the tables.

It's certainly a quandry the probation officer wants help with for the pre-sentence report and understandably so!

Interested to hear about these boards PonyPatter44 if you don't mind?

Who sits on them? Is it all people with experience of managing offenders? Are there individuals representing trans groups / organisations?

Are there similar boards for vulnerable women prisoners - pregnant? mentally unwell? with serious illnesses? Thanks

Very reassuring to here @PonyPatter44

I wonder where they worked as a prison officer?
And if as a transgender women prison officer they were responsible for strip searching women prisoners (does strip search actually happen anyway?)
Women prisoners would, I assume, have no rights at all to refuse being searched.

I've never sat on a board that agreed an exemption. All of them have involved sex offenders, and these were clearly people who had no business being in women's prisons. Not one of them "passed" as a woman either.

In my own experience, an exemption would, for example, cover someone who had transitioned before puberty but gone on to offend non-violently as an adult. The unicorn tax accountant, perhaps. I work in the men's estate but I would think that similar boards in the womens estate would be confirming that transmen should be housed in the women's estate and NOT go to the men's.

And before the ban, what would have happened? Terrifying. How on earth did so many people get hoodwinked by this? It's so obvious to anyone with a bit of common sense!