Some relevent and important statements included in the recent Daily Mail article:
'As more trans women who were convicted as men hope to follow rapist Martin Ponting into female wings, prison governors fear vulnerable inmates could be attacked
Theresa May pledged last year to make simpler for people to change gender
Transgender activists demanding it be achieved by announcing self-identity
Anonymous governor says vulnerable women in prison could be intimidated'
" Andrea Albutt, president of the Prison Governors Association , who has managed men’s and women’s jails, said: ‘I have seen women feeling very threatened by transgender prisoners’ presence.
‘Women prisoners are very vulnerable. A lot have abusive men in their lives, who are part of the reason they have ended up in prison.
'To put all men who declare they are women into women’s prisons would be very damaging."
Also:
Prison reformer Frances Crook said that she was worried that ‘some men with a history of extreme violence and sexual violence against women have found a new way of exercising aggression towards women’.
Ms Crook, executive director of the Howard League for Penal Reform , added: ‘These men are not transitioning because they like women and want to be a woman, but in order to exert a new kind of control and dominance over women, a sort of infiltration.
‘Moreover, the process is inherently discriminatory. A woman identifying as a man could not be transferred to a man’s jail because placing a person with female attributes into a prison to live with 1,000 men, all using communal showers and living areas, would put them in serious danger.’
www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5798945/Trans-women-convicted-men-attack-vulnerable-inmates.html