Case 1:
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7889707/Transsexual-spared-jail-because-of-risk-of-attack.html
Laura Voyce, originally Luke, spared prison for downloading child abuse images, after lying and saying they were downloaded by accident and also employing the 'research' defence. The judge said "Frankly, you deserve to go to prison, but I can't bring myself to send you to prison, entirely because I think prison would be an appalling experience for you. "
Case 2: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/7926153/Transsexual-escapes-jail-sentence-for-spying-campaign. html
'Jan Krause, 46, who was born male, became "obsessed" with innocent nurse Carol Story, 53, and her three children, and declared she was on a "war footing" following an argument over a noisy central heating system.
Krause made the family's lives a misery as she recorded their comings and goings between 2004 and 2009, taking pictures and keeping a diary, containing over 600 entries detailing their movements.
She deliberately smashed into a family member's car and would often stand outside their luxury £500,000 home in the leafy village of Hartford, near Northwich Cheshire - on one occasion whilst wearing a balaclava, dressed in all in black.
On another occasion she called armed police who raided Miss Story's house at 3am when her twin sons held a James Bond fancy dress themed party for their 18th birthday and they were seen with toy Walther PPK pistols.
And she also erected a roof-mounted device which emitted a high-pitched whine in the direction of Miss Story's home for nearly a year before authorities ordered her to take it down.
Krause of Walnut Lane, Hartford - who refuses to accept that she has done anything wrong - was found guilty of harassment in June and had arrived at Chester Magistrates Court last week with two rucksacks, a pillow and a bed-roll, suggesting she expected to be sent to prison.'
The judge gave a suspended sentence saying@
"It's disappointing to me that it is clear from reports that notwithstanding the very clear evidence at the trial of the distress you caused Carol Story over a number of years, you still refuse to accept you have done anything wrong at all.
"What I'd prefer is a custodial sentence today, but having said that it is quite clear, and the point Mr Thomas makes is quite right, that you are a particularly vulnerable person in a prison environment.
"It is quite clear you are a vulnerable person in the prison environment and in your case a prison sentence would have a greater impact than it would on other people. "
Indeed, but not going to prison for a transsexual is clearly a much better outcomes than would be afforded to non-transgendered people, who would be in prison.
And why are they being sent to male prisons if they are legally female and allowed to marry as 'man and wife'?