
The judgment, and the Ministry of Justice policy, use phrases like “transgender women” and “non-transgender women”; the “gender with which they identify”; and the “biological sex assigned to them at birth”.
This language obscures what is really happening. Male prisoners, including rapists, are being housed in women’s prisons, and female prisoners and prison officers are forced to pretend that these male people are women.
The language always obscures what is really happening. That’s what it’s for.
When the judges talk about “transgender women”, these are some of the people they are talking about:
https://transcrimeuk.com (from 2021/2020 convictions)
That’s one of the three rows. Look at them all.
… Read the restCurrently, under the Gender Recognition Act 2004, being