Transgender shoplifter spared jail when there is ‘no way to confirm her gender’

[Hugtheduggee]

metro.co.uk/2020/02/27/transgender-shoplifter-spared-jail-no-way-confirm-gender-12314791/

Not sure how to make clicky. Given that prisoners are strip searched on arriving at prison, how does this make sense.

Or is being trans a get out of jail free card now?

Insane for no other reason than that the individual has over 40 prior convictions.

Being trans is literally a get out of jail free card. Last week a violent robber was sentenced to jail then released because they didn't have a GRC and for some reason couldn't be sent to a male prison

It's the same one Villanelle

It’s great and I hope more of this happens - nothing will annoy the public more then criminals getting away with it. Unfortunately at some point someone will be hurt as a result of this and it will result in a backlash and ‘something’ being done. It will also hurt genuine dysphoric people who just want to live their lives and not impact on others.

Oh ok I didn't think someone who threatened a shopkeeper with a claw hammer would be described as a 'shoplifter'

Their gender is completely irrelevant. They’ll all be at this now .

But I identify as a bullfrog, your honour, do you have special provision for bullfrogs?
Eh, no. Never mind, be on your way so. NEXT.

I’ve always been abiding by the law but now I know I don’t have to, I might start living on the dangerous side of life and if I go to court, I will just simply self-identify as not guilty.

Wut?!

All his names listed in this report
www.brightonandhovenews.org/2020/02/26/hammer-wielding-brighton-shoplifter-jailed-for-terrifying-assault/

Surely if the police have his fingerprints from previous crimes
and there is no evidence of a GRC
he goes to male prison ?

This a fucking outrage

from article in OP

"Leila Le Fey, 40, admitted brandishing the weapon at shop manager Enoch Adetayo after entering a Budgens store in Brighton in a bid to steal wine at 4am on November 6 last year. She was sentenced to six months in prison, but this order was reversed when Judge Stephen Mooney heard that she did not have certified evidence of her gender reassignment and would have to be sent to a male-only jail. The only way Le Fey could ‘prove’ her new gender would be an ‘undignified examination’, which court staff were not prepared to do, her barrister Rebecca Upton said at Lewes Crown Court.
The shoplifter would not be kept in solitary confinement and would be vulnerable in this situation, she added. (continues)

Judge Mooney said ‘issues had arisen’ and acknowledged that ‘we live in a society which acknowledges and embraces diversity and allows and encourages people to live the life they want to’.
He continued: ‘Sometimes society does not make the necessary or appropriate adjustments in all ways it can to reflect the adjustments of society as a whole. “Having reflected again upon the impact an immediate custodial sentence would have, the difficulties there are and the intractable problems the prison service would face, I have reconsidered whether imprisonment must be immediate.’

metro.co.uk/2020/02/27/transgender-shoplifter-spared-jail-no-way-confirm-gender-12314791/?ito=cbshare

Presumably such a decision will only apply to males who identify as transgender found guilty of sentences usually requiring prison sentences since females who identify as transgender are housed in the female estate for their safety?