NO MALES IN FEMALE JAILS

We all know who will be adversely affected by a policy that allows men to identify their way into women’s prisons. We know that women who are incarcerated with men are unlikely to fare well.

It’s why we have sex segregation in prisons in the first place.

One former prisoner, FDJ, tried to challenge the placement of men in women’s prisons through judicial review after she was forced to shower with a male who went on to sexually assault her and other women. The judge said he fully understood the concerns of FDJ, and that women prisoners may suffer fear and acute anxiety if housed with a “transgender woman who has male genitalia”. He also acknowledged that the unconditional introduction of a man into the general population of a women's prison carries a statistically greater risk of sexual assault upon non-transgender prisoners. Despite this FDJ lost her case and the practice of housing fully intact males with women continues.