All transwomen are to be moved out of Scottish female prisons today. 🙌🏻

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https://x.com/forwomenscot/status/2069385340159225981?s=46&t=AjtjSItRj-kgZwRzL-pdyQ

Scotgov will not appeal and the current transgender policy has been withdrawn. At long bloody last!!

But how will they tell which are the transwomen?

Wow, well done to all the campaigners! (Genuinely).

I seem to remember @ArabellaScott was working this out on another thread in the last few days, not easy to do from the wangled statistics, but it's certainly more than one. It will also stop a couple of well known offenders who regularly come in and out of the prison system from being inflicted on women again.

Good day to put out this news - Peter Murrell sentencing, Starmer/Burnham, footie, the heatwave (mind you, has that reached Scotland?!)

Never thought this would actually happen despite all the victories and the law and reality being on our side so this is beyond excellent news.

Even if there had only been one man in a women's prison, who knows how many women will have been put at risk.

It's truly a mystery...

Amazing! Thank you to FWS women and everyone who fought for it

Will be self ID, presumably.

They'll look for the special women with nice lipstick on.

Fantastic news! 🥳

Plus completely missing from mainstream reporting: that this isn't about trans people. It's about women. (You know. Those strange beings who are half the human race?)

The point is opening the door to men of bad faith to victimise women.

(Of which we have had plentiful examples lately. And since forever. These are physical facts. The evidence is everywhere. It doesn't vanish because the ones who suffer are women.)

Maybe mention the men who use every excuse for camouflage whether it's being Scoutmasters or being trans at least once in every discussion?

Because that is the point. (Some) men's appalling and criminal behavior.

If trans people don't like being limited by men's criminality, well, join the club. Women can talk to you about that.

Also about viewing the women's resources and provisions as something men can be entitled to under any circumstances at all, as opposed to being for and about women.

Even if there were only one at this moment in time, even if there were none at this moment in time, there would be some in the future. I’m pretty sure there is more than one transwoman prisoner in a female prison at this moment in time though.

Are we sure that the transfer will happen today, rather than the work to implement the transfer?

This feels monumental. A clear result with the goal achieved. Now lets see what the English government does.

The ones with petticoats.

They can pass the time chatting with Peter Murrell about his £3000 robotic lawn mower

The judge in Giggle v Tickle stated that Trans women wear V necks.

This should help narrow down which prisoners need to be transferred.

I can't see that any transfers will take place today purely down to the logistics of finding spaces in another prison and arranging transport

Massive thanks to everyone who campaigned! It would be nice to see SPS apologise to those poor women prisoners but I guess that's not how it works. Moving the male prisoners out matters most!

This murderer has been held in a women's prison for 10 years. He's in prison for luring a gay man to his home and stabbing him 16 times. After conviction he decided to identify as a woman. He also managed to get his criminal record expunged. He's recently been charged with sexually assaulting a woman at the prison (and I think may now be housed elsewhere, while awaiting trial). Presumably the Scottish Prison Service came to the conclusion that he was not an "unreasonable" danger to the female inmates.
Trans prisoner charged with sexual assault in women's jail - BBC News

This is the best news I've heard all week.

👏👏👏🍾 to FWS!

When are they going to remove males from women's prisons in England? As far as I am aware, former fell runner Lauren Jeska, who tried to murder UK Athletics HR head Ralph Knibbs in 2016, is still being held at HM Prison Foston Hall, which is a women's closed category prison.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lauren_Jeska

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HM_Prison_Foston_Hall

Hurrah 🎉