Not a right
The Government is spending £150 million at women’s jails on 500 new cells which can be used for transgender lags.
They will be single occupancy with ensuite loos and showers. But some will enable women to have their kids overnight to prepare for life at home.
Tory Baroness Scott of Bybrook confirmed the cells plan to support “transgender needs” as required by law and jail policy.
In July, a High Court Judge ruled holding transgender women in female jails is lawful because a ban would ignore their right to live as their chosen gender.
Their what? What right? What right is that?
There is no such right. That’s not a right. There’s no such thing as a “right” to live as any fictional category. There’s no right to live as a leprechaun, there’s no right to live as a visitor from another planet, there’s no right to live as a talking rabbit. None of that is forbidden, either, and people can fantasize whatever they like, but when it comes to requiring expensive special arrangements paid for by other people – forget it. When it comes to demolishing the rights of other people, knock it over the head.
I don’t understand the news item. Are the jails building single-occupancy units for women, so that they can be safe from the men that are now invading the jails? Or are they building these single-occupancy units for men, who say that they are women, but are experiencing “lags” in being allowed into women’s spaces?
@1 ‘lags’ is slang for ‘prisoners’.
I do have to wonder how much nicer the TIM cells are than the women’s cells.
Lag=prisoner or convict in UK slang.
Thanks.
Both women and “women”, I presume.
Ignoring the idiocy of housing males in female prisons…
“They will be single occupancy… ”
Perhaps they could save some money and make them multiple occupancy, then ‘the lags’ could use their sentence time more productively to, for example, mutually sort out their autogynephilia issues without further recourse on the taxpayer…
Off topic, got “There has been a critical error on your website.” on clicking the “subscribe to replies” link in the email sent out, with a link to https://wordpress.org/support/article/debugging-in-wordpress/
The one crumb of comfort here is that the trans-identifying male prisoners won’t like this either, since I’m sure that, for many, part of the point of identifying as female is that they get to force women to shower with them.
Although now I think about it, I suppose there’s probably nothing preventing them from occupying the fancy en-suite cells and showering with the women anyway. That would probably make their domination all the sweeter.
PJH: ‘subscribe to replies’ hasn’t worked for ages anyway. It’s one of the things we occasionally complain about to enrage Ophelia.
If you have an RSS reader, you can still subscribe to the feed for all comments (and one for all posts). It’s less convenient (for me) and sometimes a bit flaky, but the links are there on the front page if you want them.
“‘subscribe to replies’ hasn’t worked for ages anyway.”
Strangely, I *am* actually getting emails – specifically I gone one for each of your two posts….
WordPress is nothing if not wildly unpredictable.
Nice afterthought, did anyone lift a finger toward such an improvement if it only benefited women and children?