What emotional needs do TW have that are different to the emotional needs of other male people but similar to female people?
Since when were decisions on the sex based prison estate organised around emotional needs?
I'm sorry, this is delusional. TW prisoners may very well be vulnerable and have particular needs, and absolutely those needs should be met, properly, thoroughly. And the needs of male prisoners with MH issues, which is an appalling problem, and the needs of gay male prisoners, and the needs of elderly male prisoners, talk to someone who works in the prison system and they will talk at you for a long time, often with a lot of care and concern, for the many very vulnerable men they support. Privacy, dignity and safety should be a basic human right for everyone, male and female.
No male need ever requires the use of female people's bodies as a resource. Because lets be honest about this, it isn't the space that's wanted. That expensive special wing in a women's prison was created for TW prisoners who did not risk assess (at the time) as safe enough to inflict on women to meet the wish to be on the female estate. It was never used, because it was not about the space it was about the right to physical access to women's bodies. The TW and their lawyers and this political lobby kicked off until those TW got access to women prisoners. And that probably played a large part, along with the one in pink leggings, in pushing the government to say, right, no male offenders with intact genitals and/or a history of sexual or violent crime. And as it turns out - that pretty much ruled out all of them.
And yes, it is that ugly in being about a male right to women's bodies, because no other part of these women is of any interest. Not their feelings, their emotional needs, their sense of self, their beliefs and identities, their wishes for their best lives and authentic selves, their definition of sexuality - no, it's about how their physical body meets the need of the male, whether it's as a prop in the room to 'be with other women' or in the case of White at al, to make use of for getting the sexual abuse jollies buzz.
I don't draw a line between where it's 'ok' to use women and where it becomes 'oh that's getting a bit grim now' - it's all using women's bodies, that can never be acceptable. And there's a pattern in all of this. In the refusal to permit women accessible female only spaces or health care or rape crisis service or escape from a life threatening relationship in along side accessible mixed sex 'womens' ones, which we'd all be fine with - in the refusal to permit women to be homosexual openly and proudly and say 'my personal choice is no male of any identity'. All of it is about anger where a woman wishes to control access to her body preventing use in a way that a male person feels they have special entitlement to. I'm done with the abuse of this agenda towards women and I am absolutely done with special pleading.