Category: Women’s Prisons
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Don’t let trans rapists choose gender, UN warns police
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Special rapporteur concerned third of British forces still take into account self-identified gender in violence cases against females Police forces that allow criminals to pick their own gender are the “biggest barrier to ending violence against women and girls”, a United Nations report has found. Reem Alsalem, the UN special rapporteur for violence against women and girls, said…
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Rape crime data based on sex not gender
WST congratulate the Government for recording rape crime and victim data for statistical purposes according to sex not gender. Yesterday WST received a reply from Deputy Premier, Attorney General and Minister for Justice Guy Barnett confirming that data for statistical purposed in rape cases: ‘it is the sex of accused people and complainants that is…
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Collection of data for statistical purposes with regard to rape cases
Women Speak Tasmania wrote to the Minister for Justice Guy Barnett and Minister for Women and the Prevention of Family Violence Jo Palmer in regard of how data is collected on rape cases. Below you can read our letter from the 29th January 2025 Reply from Minister for Justice Guy Barnett 12th March 2025
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Statistics Show That HALF of Trans-Identified Men in Prison Are Sex Offenders
Eva Kurilova’s excellent article detailing prison data from different countries, including Australia. The justice system has fail vulnerable women by allowing men who identify as women to enter female prisons. Many Western countries are transferring men into women’s prisons and calling this violation of women’s human rights “progress.” Eva wrote. Fair Go for Queensland Women…
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More than 70 per cent of transgender prisoners are in for sex offences or violent crimes
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Violent offences among male prisoners who identify as women shows why they shouldn’t be in female prisons, say women’s rights campaigners More than 70 per cent of transgender prisoners in British jails are serving sentences for sex offences and violent crimes, government figures have revealed. At least 181 of the 244 transgender inmates, more than…
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NSW serial killer Regina Kaye Arthurell arrested after alleged sexual crime
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A NSW ‘woman’ convicted three times for homicide has been arrested again in Sydney. A NSW woman convicted three times for homicide has been arrested over an alleged sexual crime. Regina Kaye Arthurell, 75, was arrested on Friday after she allegedly sexually touched a man at a facility in southwestern Sydney earlier this month. The…
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Karen White: how ‘manipulative’ transgender inmate attacked again
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Transgender politics – like any politics – can be divisive. Yet in the case of Karen White, who is legally still a man but was put in a female-only prison, both sides of the transgender rights debate are united in the belief mistakes were made. White entered the UK prison system as transgender. However, despite dressing…