Male sex offenders ‘faking trans identities’ to move to women’s prisons
by Charles Hymas, Telegraph:
Evidence unearthed by the prisoners’ newspaper Inside Time found inmates were pretending to change gender to access the female estate.
Jailed male sex offenders are faking transgender identities in an effort to move to women-only prisons, research backed by the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) suggests.
The moves were disclosed in interviews with prisoners who had already transitioned and felt the “fakers” were a threat to their reputation and to the limited resources available to them in custody.
Inmates who pretended to be transitioning saw it as a way to lower their risk and to try to secure a place in the female prison estate, according to the evidence unearthed by Inside Time, the prisoners’ newspaper.
Last year there were 168 legally-male trans women prisoners in England and Wales. Only six were in women’s prisons, with the remainder in men’s. A further 11 prisoners had legally switched gender by obtaining Gender Recognition Certificates.
The figures show that men jailed for sexual offences are twice as likely to identify as trans women than men jailed for other types of offences.
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