Thanks for starting this thread. I missed the webchat while it was live, so by the time I read it I could no longer post on it, and I really wanted to comment about the contradictions in his answers.
He said this:
Women in prison have disproportionately been victims of physical, emotional and sexual abuse both as children and as adults. Too many of them are victims themselves.
Then a couple of minutes later, this:
The point I'm making is that it would wrong to leave somebody in a male prison who is self ID-ing as a woman because they can be vulnerable to abuse... at the forefront of my mind is the security of everyone involved, particularly the person who is changing their gender
So he recognises that female prisoners are often victims of male violence, and yet he still thinks it is more important to consider the 'security' of the male person who self-identifies as a woman than the safety of the women that male person is to be incarcerated with.
What is going on in his head? Does he think women aren't actually human, or what?