What about transgender women who are serving sentences for fraud, or theft? Ones with no sexual offending past? Is the likelihood that they going to rape other women so high that you want to infringe on their human rights? What about the risk to those individuals while in a mens prison?
"My concern about the current approach is that it is appears to privilege the subjective feelings of particular, largely male, prisoners, at the expense of the needs of those prisoners, largely women, who have to live with the decisions imposed upon them. Highly vulnerable, often traumatised, prisoners are the rule, not the exception, in women's prisons. Many have faced male sexual violence and exploitation.
Consider what it must be like for women who have experienced male violence to have males imprisoned alongside them.
There are other concerns too. The Chief Executive of the Howard League, Frances Crook, told last weekend's Sunday Times that she had 'personally witnessed female prisoners visibly "intimidated" by a male-bodied trans inmate in their midst. "The trans prisoner was dominating the space and the women were round the edges," she said.'
" - Richard Garside, Director of the Centre for Crime and Justice Studies.
This is why the transwomen's "human rights" should not trump the rights of the women who have no choice.