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
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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".
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“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
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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
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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”
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"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.
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“We need to look at this from a human rights perspective" says Brewer. .....Except both she and every body at
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@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.Show this thread -
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 …Show this thread
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Omg - can the
@rights_info team not refrain from making basic mistakes? Get their articles checked before they put them out there? Or is this deliberately misleading the public?Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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