Fewer than five transgender women are being held in female jails after a major transfer programme in the wake of the <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/YG8Er/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/02/transgender-rapist-isla-bryson-prison-transphobic-abuse/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Isla Bryson scandal.
Around 10 transgender women are believed to have been deemed potential security risks and <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/YG8Er/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/07/16/trans-prisoners-moved-out-womens-jails-isla-bryson-moj/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">moved out of women’s jails following a tightening of the rules in prisons in England and Wales.
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) imposed a retrospective ban on transgender prisoners with male genitalia or with a conviction for violent or sexual offences to be held in women’s prisons.
It was introduced by the then justice secretary, Dominic Raab, after Bryson, a transgender woman found guilty of raping two women before she transitioned, was sent to Cornton Vale, an all-female prison.
The <a class="break-all" href="https://archive.ph/o/YG8Er/www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2023/01/16/rishi-sunak-strikes-nurses-news-latest-keir-starmer-brexit/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">subsequent outcry forced the Scottish Government to reverse the policy and led to a review of the rules south of the border.
According to new MoJ data, the number of transgender women in female jails has fallen to between zero and five, excluding those in possession of a gender recognition certificate. The MoJ refuses to be more precise because of the risk of identifying individuals.
Full article at https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/12/03/most-trans-prisoners-no-longer-in-female-jails/ or https://archive.ph/YG8Er