Category: Women’s Prisons
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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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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…