Women’s Prisons

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.… Read more: Don’t let trans rapists choose gender, UN warns police

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… Read more: Rape crime data based on sex not gender

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… Read more: Collection of data for statistical purposes with regard to rape cases

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… Read more: Statistics Show That HALF of Trans-Identified Men in Prison Are Sex Offenders

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… Read more: More than 70 per cent of transgender prisoners are in for sex offences or violent crimes

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… Read more: NSW serial killer Regina Kaye Arthurell arrested after alleged sexual crime

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… Read more: Karen White: how ‘manipulative’ transgender inmate attacked again