A female prisoner who was sexually assented while behind bars by a trans inmate will today launch a challenge against the policy of keeping such offenders in women’s prisons.
She was attacked by an inmate who identified as female but had not had reassignment surgery.
The trans woman had previous convictions for serious sexual offences however the offender was put in a woman’s prison HMP & YOI Downview in Surrey.
The landmark case will argue the Government is breaching equality law, the case will focus on trans women inmates who have committed a sexual or violent crime.
The High Court will also hear a challenge to the policy of having a transgender unit at Downview.
Tara Mulcair, from the claimant’s solicitors Birnberg Peirce, said: ‘This case does not seek to exclude all trans women from female prisons.
‘We say that the prison service, in seeking to have due regard to the rights of transgender prisoners, has disregarded the impact of these policies on female prisoners, many of who have suffered male violence.’
The claimant is supported by Keep Prisons Single Sex.
Director Kate Coleman said: “This will be a very important case because it is the first to challenge the Prison Service policy of housing transgender prisoners in the women’s estate.”
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