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The new framework recognises the need to "protect both the welfare and rights of the transgender individual and the welfare and rights of others around them"...particularly the risk from males to women in women's prisons
"Trans Women Inmates Could Spend Weeks Stuck In Male Prisons" they complain (actually Richard notes most transwomen are in male prisons and are not seeking transfer to the women's estate, but other provisions to recognise their identity).
@rights_info thinks it is awful that men who declare a female gender identity are held in the mens estate for 14 days in order to undertake risk assessment.
"Two weeks in a male estate – irrespective of your experience and regardless of how you have lived your life for some time – is a step back. It seems to be a regression" says Barrister Michelle Brewer
"Don’t get me wrong " she says, " risk assessments need to happen" (so where exactly does she think male prisoners of unknown risk should be held??)
Both Brewer and @rights_info appear to be on a planet where they just can't imagine that men pose a threat to women (or even acknowledge that we have separate SEX prisons in the first place).pic.twitter.com/vrguVZJyKM
Its a planet where Karen White doesn't exist. Nor does Tiffany Scott. Nor does Kayleigh Woods. Such cases get no mention https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/transgender-prisoner-branded-one-scotlands-11837767 …https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9206136/trans-killer-romping-female-switch-womens-jail/ …
The article suggests there is such a thing as "opposite gender prisons". (Rights info have a problem with saying sex.... )https://twitter.com/2010Equality/status/1098254604582699008 …
Brewer says “we are talking about a policy that is published by the government that states that the ‘strength and function’ of a prisoners genitals can be looked at as a threat to other prisoners".
“How do you assess the strength and function of some one’s genitalia? Where is the legality in that?” she asks..... it does sound a bit odd
Except it doesn't say that.... READ THE POLICY. What it says is "consideration of physical strength and genitalia" . Which seem like perfectly reasonable things to consider if you are thinking about locking a male criminal up in a women's prisonpic.twitter.com/N3gL3YCEyQ
What prompted the review says Brewer was the government capitulating to "anti-trans campaigners" who put forward “the idea that trans women impose an inherent risk to non-trans women”
"It attaches that risk to their trans identity.” I can not get over the stupidity of this. Men pose an inherent risk to women, whether they have a trans identity or not. If you cannot understand this you have no place writing about any of this.
“We need to look at this from a human rights perspective" says Brewer. .....Except both she and every body at @rights_info appears to have forgotten that women in prison have human rights.
I am going to tag in @AdamWagner1 but I don't expect a response, apart from the usual 'put in a complaint', which will be fobbed off by the team. Adam your organisation has a problem on this issue. It is the board's responsibility.
Michelle Brewer is co-founder of @UKTELI and co convenor on prisons (along with, at one time Jess Bradley ). You'd think @rights_info would mention their expert is not just "a barrister" but co-founder of a lobbying organisationhttps://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1025286778025136128.html …
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