Radical: The ideology of gender identity has been adopted at UK prisons, putting biological women at serious risk
by Victoria Hewson, Conservative Home:
Transgender prisoners hit the US headlines last week, after it was revealed that hundreds of male prisoners in California have applied to transfer to women’s prisons under a law that came into force at the start of the year.
Under the new law, The Los Angeles Times reports: “all inmates will be asked upon admission about their gender identity, their pronouns, whether they prefer the female or male search policy, and if they want to be housed in an institution that aligns with their gender identity”.
It has been disclosed that 261 prisoners have requested to be transferred, of which only six wanted to be moved to a men’s prison. Twenty one requests have already been granted (and none have yet been refused) to trans-identifying male prisoners, meaning they will be moved to women’s correctional facilities, to the horror of many female prisoners and officers.
You may think this is just an example of the “woke” agenda being pursued by Democrats under the Biden administration. But regardless of your views on American politics, you should be aware that the UK has had such policies in operation for several years.
In England and Wales, under the Ministry of Justice and HM Prison and Probation Service’s policy, set out in The Care and Management of Individuals who are Transgender, prisoners are accommodated by default in accordance with their “legal gender”.
This means that biologically male offenders who have a gender recognition certificate (GRC) — and are, therefore, legally regarded as female (for almost all purposes) — are automatically housed in the women’s prison estate. In theory, if these prisoners are determined to pose a high risk to other prisoners, then they could be moved to the male estate. But owing to the policy’s extreme interpretation of the Equality Act (EA), the prison service is only meant to do this if they would take the same step in respect of a high-risk natal female prisoner — to avoid the risk of discrimination on the basis of gender reassignment.
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