Fairplay For Women article:
Sex attacks: MPs must investigate risks of transgender prisoners
13th May 2019
(extract)
Nicola Williams said: “The evidence shows that allowing criminals with male bodies to have access to vulnerable women can pose a real threat. Experts have been warning about this for years but no action has been taken and women are suffering fear and abuse. MPs should be asking why the prison system is turning a blind eye to the abuse of women in its care.”
The report in the Sun is just the latest worrying sign about the risks posed by some transgender prisoners.
Senior figures in the criminal justice system have been warning of those dangers for some time and FPFW said MPs can no longer ignore the evidence.
Others who have expressed concern include:
Andrea Albutt, president of the Prison Governors Association said in June 2018: “I have seen women feeling very threatened by transgender prisoners’ presence. Women prisoners are very vulnerable.”
Frances Crook of the Howard League, a prison reform campaign, has said that she is 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’.
The British Psychological Society has said this: “psychologists working with forensic patients are aware of a number of cases where men convicted of sex crimes have falsely claimed to be transgender females for a number of reasons”
Dr James Barrett of the British Association of Gender Identity Specialists has said this: “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” (continues)
fairplayforwomen.com/sex-attacks-mps-must-investigate-risks-of-transgender-prisoners/
Any MP who has failed to listen to the many clear warnings by experts in criminal justice of serious Safeguarding risks to vulnerable females in prison must be held accountable.
Questions must surely also be asked of their advisors who have been providing briefs.