Article in the times today: www.thetimes.co.uk/article/trans-women-put-female-inmates-at-risk-vzr90th3r
"Transgender women prisoners have said that prison service policy is putting female inmates at risk.
Two trans convicts expressed alarm that prisoners who were transitioning to be women but had not had surgery were being sent to women’s prisons.
In October Karen White, 52, was jailed for life for sexually assaulting two prisoners while on remand in a women’s jail and raping two women.
Lisa Simpson, a trans prisoner at HMP Littlehey in Cambridgeshire, told Inside Time, a newspaper for prisoners, that transitioning prisoners should not be allowed to mix with women inmates while they still had penises. She welcomed a unit at Downview women’s prison in Surrey for what she referred to as “those assorted freaks that think it is acceptable to invade women’s…"