Trans by Helen Joyce 99p on Kindle. AIBU...

[HereticFanjo]

... To suggest you read it if you still think Mumsnet is full of meanie transphobes? If you hide any thread that mentions gender identity? If you're politically homeless because politicians like Keir Starmer are too busy arguing about 'cervix havers' to actually lead the opposition against this shitshow government?

This is not the time for ostriching or #BeKind. It's the time to wake up to the harm gender identity politics is doing to our society, democracy and free speech and to so many vulnerable individuals. Especially children with autism and dysphoria and vulnerable women and children who are being browbeaten into allowing men to access their previously semi-safe spaces.

Stop relegating this stuff to FWR. The opposition parties are devouring themselves over this and losing women voters by the thousand. Meanwhile the Tories are merrily destroying our public services.

@Waitwhat23

I do agree when a biological male is arrested, commits a crime or is imprisoned, he should be always be recorded as male as important for correct data.

Agreed. However in Scottish prisons in particular, males with a GRC are seen as legally female and recorded as such. The current rules for the reporting of crimes follow guidelines which mean that those convicted or alleged are referred to by their gender, not sex. In the court system, the same applies leading to women having to refer to the male who raped them as 'her'.

There is a massive over-representation of sex offender transwomen who are housed in the female estate.

The recent judicial review acknowledged the threat to women as well as the fear caused by being incarcerated with males but concluded that it is more important for the transwomen's well being to socialise with women, than the women's wellbeing.

Scottish prison policy I have just seen appears to be different to English prison in some areas, so my quote was only applicable to England.

Males with a GRC are seen as legally female and recorded as such in England too. This should change. Obvious currently v few have GRC, although know if self ID was introduced that would change.

Sorry can’t write more today, but will continue to follow it all both for England and elsewhere.