Maya Forstater

Its about the new framework for the care and management of transgender prisoners which @RichardJGarside covered this weekhttps://twitter.com/RichardJGarside/status/1153322675877666821 …

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

@rights_info calls it "Progress Undone", "regression" .....

"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??)