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cross-posted from: https://hilariouschaos.com/post/900940
Almost two thirds of transgender women in prisons who are still legally recognised as men have been convicted of sex offences, official figures show.
This rate – 62 per cent – is far higher than that of the male prison population as a whole.
Some 151 of the 245 legally male trans women in jail at the end of March 2024 were sex offenders, according to data revealed in response to a written parliamentary question.
In comparison, 17 per cent of men in prison in England and Wales are sex offenders.
A rule change in 2023 meant trans women with male genitalia, or those convicted of violent or sexual offences, were no longer allowed to be held in women’s jails.
Exemptions can still be considered by ministers in ‘exceptional circumstances’. The rule change followed high profile cases including that of Isla Bryson, who began identifying as a trans woman while awaiting trial for two rapes.
In February 2023, Bryson was convicted of two rapes and jailed for eight years.
She was first sent to the all-female Cornton Vale prison in Scotland before being transferred to a male prison after the case sparked public outrage.
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This claim sounds bad, until you discover that “Sex offenders” includes prostitution, a field where women (and trans women) make up the vast majority of the “offenders”. As the saying goes, “There’s lies, damned lies and statistics” and you can find them all in the Daily Mail.
How often does the UK even jail prostitutes?
Very rarely. It’s de facto decriminalized.
Between 2018 and 2022, there were only forty prosecutions for either loitering for purposes of prostitution or soliciting. It is likely that this is done only with prosecutorial discretion and designed to prevent some other form of crime.
So virtually none of these are trans arrested for prostitution qua prostitution.
They also appear to have deliberately chosen the smallest population possible to make sure the sample size gave them the skewed flashy percentages they wanted for their headlines.
