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Just for info.
Male jails and female jails are set up in similar ways. They will have a segregation unit (seg) and often a healthcare unit. Healthcare is supposed to be used for people with severe mental health problems and seg is for those who need to be removed from prison population either for a period of punishment (sorry, care and separation these days!) or for their own or others protection.
Some prisons will have a Vulnerable Prisoners wing for prisoners who may be at risk from other inmates due to their crime or other factors such as having been a police or prison officer. Some jails are set up solely for VPs, although these are male due purely to numbers.
To my mind I can't ever see a transgender wing (certainly in the short term) being set up due to numbers. The cost would be prohibitive. So what to do with transgender?
You can't seg them for too long unless they are a danger. Seg is heavily controlled and overseen right up to ministerial level. Time in there has to be kept to a minimum.
Healthcare is always short on spaces and it wouldn't be the right place for the other inmates. Helathcare admission is done on clinical need.
VP wing? Often holds quite dangerous and manipulative sex offenders. The risk to a transgender person could be huge. So you are left with two conflicting issues. Keeping the transgender person safe and keeping the rest of the population safe. A difficult balance to keep and I think one you can only manage on a case by case basis.
As for this case, I imagine they were transferred to female because someone had to make the call on whether it was safe or not for them to remain in a male jail and whether it was safe for the females of the receiving jail. Not an easy decision. I imagine he was transferred with heavy notes saying 'Keep a close eye on him'.
Bronzefield have and now he's in seg. Out of a difficult situation, they seem to have done the right thing.