I'm reading that document and it's shocking stuff. I've never read it before.
God this explains loads
I would suggest advance searching on here and reading some of the dozens of threads about the production of the Maria Miller report. (Sorry, don't have time this morning, but R0 may show up with her usual panache!)
Written evidence was provided by many groups when the call went out. Maria Miller called no women's groups to give follow-up evidence in person to the committee, only TRA groups.
These groups included ATH - the people with the maniac manifesto and represented to the committee by Jess Bradley, who we now know is facing allegations of flashing at work and in public, posting paedophile porn on a personal blog, and sexually inappropriate behaviour bordering, according to accounts, on harassment.
Here is the written evidence supplied by Dr James Barrett of the British Association of Gender Identity Specialists:
data.parliament.uk/WrittenEvidence/CommitteeEvidence.svc/EvidenceDocument/Women%20and%20Equalities/Transgender%20Equality/written/19532.html
It included this:
The converse is the ever-increasing tide of referrals of patients in prison serving long or indeterminate sentences for serious sexual offences. These vastly outnumber the number of prisoners incarcerated for more ordinary, non-sexual, offences. It has been rather naïvely suggested that nobody would seek to pretend transsexual status in prison if this were not actually the case. There are, to those of us who actually interview the prisoners, in fact very many reasons why people might pretend this. These vary from the opportunity to have trips out of prison through to a desire for a transfer to the female estate (to the same prison as a co-defendant) through to the idea that a parole board will perceive somebody who is female as being less dangerous through to a [false] belief that hormone treatment will actually render one less dangerous through to wanting a special or protected status within the prison system and even (in one very well evidenced case that a highly concerned Prison Governor brought particularly to my attention) a plethora of prison intelligence information suggesting that the driving force was a desire to make subsequent sexual offending very much easier, females being generally perceived as low risk in this regard. I am sure that the Governor concerned would be happy to talk about this.
He was not invited to give evidence in person to the committee and his evidence did not appear in the report.
Had what he said been given consideration, it's entirely likely the prison service would have not amended its trans policy in the way it did and Karen White would not have assaulted women prisoners.
Maria Miller's arrogant handling of this report and her wholesale dismissing of the concerns about the impact on women and children have done incalculable damage. It was her responsibility to curb extremist pressure groups. She did not. She is more to blame for where we currently are than almost any other person in the country.