Scottish trans prisoners will initially be placed in jails according to their sex at birth, the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) has confirmed, abandoning Nicola Sturgeon’s self-identification policy.
Under the initial plans, newly convicted or remanded prisoners were set to be categorised under the gender they identified as rather than their sex at birth.
The climbdown comes as a result of an urgent review and follows fierce debate surrounding the case of double rapist Isla Bryson, who committed the crimes while she was known as a man called Adam Graham. Although born male, the prisoner considered herself a woman and as such, policy dictated Bryson be placed in a women's jail.As such, the policy dictated Bryson be placed in a women's jail, noting the prisoner did not put female prisoners at risk of harm.Highlighting the prisoner did not put female prisoners at risk of harm, the rmove sparked bitter public backlash, and later saw Bryson moved from Cornton Vale to a male wing at HMP Edinburgh.
Noting it had received "conflicting" details on the risk posed by Isla Bryson, the SPS also called for an urgent review of admission rules in the cases of certain inmates. The U-turn goes much further than a policy initially announced by SNP ministers shorty after the backlash erupted, which only banned trans prisoners “with any history of violence against women” from being sent to female jails.
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