Research studies on female prisoners in Scotland and transgender prisoners

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I saw a reference to this study and I thought it might be of interest to the posters here:

academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/bjc/azab091/6370239

The above paper contains interviews with women in Scottish prisons who have been imprisoned with transgender prisoners.

These papers may also be of interest (interviews with transgender prisoners) :

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1477370820984488

discovery.dundee.ac.uk/en/publications/i-want-the-male-and-the-female-wings-i-dont-want-a-special-trans-

N.B The term "cis" is used extensively!

We published a report at the end of last year looking at women's prisons in Scotland, highlighting what we consider to be the institutional capture of the Scottish Prison Service by Scottish Trans Alliance. We discuss the Maycock research and in the appendices you are read an unpublished paper reporting on interviews with prison officers. One key finding is that female officers were not happy about strip searching male offenders who identify as transgender.

kpssinfo.org/reports/

I don’t dispute that transwomen prisoners need protection but putting males in a females space and a categorically wrong. Are effeminate gay men also entitled to be in woman’s prison? One could argue they are at greater risk as a well. The answer seems to be improving prison safety and looking at third spaces. This isn’t an issue that should be affecting females

This is also an interesting thread on the manipulation of getting males into Scottish female prisons .

twitter.com/lnmackenzie1/status/1475517279634927617?s=21

Another article in the Times today, about female prison staff:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0d15101a-70c8-11ec-9b05-685948f9304d?shareToken=64a828e90ae9ce3a1bd84566476d7741

Thanks igneo.

I notice the dehumanising language those female prison officer’s use and I wonder if it is a coping mechanism. The result of being forced to find a way to distance themselves from intimately searching a male under duress of losing their job.

And is it endemic throughout that work place? Do they speak about all bodies they have to intimately search because it is really an uncomfortable part of their job.

www.spectator.co.uk/article/asking-about-male-inmates-in-women-s-jails-isn-t-transphobic

Just in case anyone's interested in this article by Stephen Daisley

The article covers a question asked by MSP John Mason about how many people whose biological sex is male, are in female estate. The SNP LBGTQ+ wing has lodged a complaint. Interesting article

Even setting aside the acronym-flinging hostilities of the gender wars, if MSPs cannot ask orderly parliamentary questions about public policy without the threat of disciplinary action, parliament cannot function properly. Holyrood is dysfunctional enough, thank you very much.

I liked this comment by Mr Daisley That was it. Immediately afterwards, Maggie Chapman got to her feet with a broadside against Mason disguised as a question. Chapman is a Green MSP, the Scottish Greens being a party that campaigns for gender self-identification, Scottish independence, and occasionally takes an interest in the environment.

I'm finding it increasingly bonkers and insidious that a really obviously important and simple question such as this gets so heatedly avoided. There's actual DARVO going on here. At the heart of government.