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A transgender butcher has admitted abducting a primary schoolgirl while dressed as a woman before sexually assaulting her at his home.Andrew Miller, who is also known as Amy George and claims to be in

More than 60 per cent of transgender prisoners in Scotland began transitioning only after they were locked up, it has been revealed.Data obtained under Freedom

Transgender women with male genitalia will no longer be able to be held in mainstream women’s prisons, under new measures coming into force today.

Staff at Low Moss male prison claim their human rights went “out the window”.

Scotland’s first minister insists the government is dealing with the “difficult issues” in an “appropriate” way.

Violent trans inmates will be blocked from all female jails in Scotland until the conclusion of an “urgent review” into all cases, the SNP justice secretary and

Scottish ministers face calls for a rethink on self-identification reform after it emerged that a double rapist has been granted a gender recognition certificate.

Scottish prison staff say only two assault claims have been made against trans women inmates since a controversial gender self-identification policy was adopted

Sally Dixon, 58, carried out offences against seven children from 1989 to 1996 while she was a man. She has been sentenced to 18 years in a women’s prison with two years extended license.

The transgender prison population in Scottish jails has increased by four to sixteen in the last quarter. The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) said there were 11

Campaigners have described elements of the draft new guidance as ‘troubling’ and ‘risky’ due to concern over male-born 10 to 18-year-olds being housed with girls.

A senior prisons official has said the service will be able to screen people seeking to abuse reforms to gender recognition laws.Under current Scottish Prison S

Self-declaration of ‘gender identity’ rather than biological sex has been adopted by all key criminal justice institutions, think tank says

Women are being failed by the criminal justice system because it is too focused on transgender rights, a report claims.The work for the Policy Exchange think ta

Concern after new research suggested that men who changed their gender to female in jail are switching back to their birth gender after release.

Waiving her anonymity in an interview with The Mail on Sunday, Cheryle Kempton is the first victim to speak out in the hope that it prevents other women facing a similar fate.

Allowing the crimes of rapists who are biologically male to be attributed to women will do nothing to improve Scotland’s conviction rate for serious sexual assa

Female prison officers in Scotland have revealed that they are uncomfortable at being forced to search transgender prisoners who still have male genitalia, a du

The former Scottish justice secretary has called for “separate secure prison units” for violent sexual offender who are transgender.Kenny MacAskill’s appeal com

Female prisoners in Scottish jails have told how transgender inmates serving sentences alongside them switched back to their male birth gender after being rele

I’ve written before about women in prison with their specific needs and the dangers posed by policies allowing for gender self-identification.

Twelve trans prisoners convicted of violence or sexual crimes have been accommodated in Scottish women’s jails within the past 18 months, according to figures

Under equality rules, offenders who use terms deemed ‘threatening, abusive or insulting’ could have additional days added to their sentence

Professor Alice Sullivan submission of 27 August 2021 in relation to PE1876/H: Accurately record the sex of people charged or convicted of rape or attempted rape

The Category B men’s prison is currently home to a plethora of highly dangerous criminals

A prison that holds criminals convicted of sexual offences is handing out gender pronoun badges as part of an inclusion drive. HMP Isle of Wight, whose former inmates include the paedophile Gary Glitter, announced the measure as it began its Inclusion Week, which starts today. The prison, which comb

HMP Isle of Wight is issuing badges to inmates to express their preferred gender pronouns as part of a gender identity inclusion week. The move, which aims to promote inclusivity amongst the prison community, has received mixed reviews from commenters online - including the Chairman of the Commons …

The High Court ruling on the presence of male transgender prisoners in women’s prisons exposed that the law does not work for women.

I am coming out of semi-retirement from writing about sex and gender to write this, because it’s about women in prison, a group that desperately need more attention from people interested in politics and policy. The High Court has been considering the question of transgender women (i.e. people who…

Judges side with Government after woman prisoner complained that placing transgender offenders in female prisons puts other inmates at risk

Transgender prisoners are five times more likely to carry out sex attacks on inmates at women’s jails than other prisoners are, official figures show.Male prisoners who were transferred to women’s

High court case will test policy that places transgender women in women’s prisons

A prisoner is bringing a legal challenge to the government after claiming that she was sexually assaulted by a transgender inmate at an all-female jail.A judge will hear tomorrow that the policy of

Chloe Walker, 30, who also uses the name Brandon, was jailed for ten months at Northampton Crown Court after breaking a sexual harm prevention order after committing a string of offences.

A former Scottish prison governor has spoken out against gender reforms that she argues will expose female inmates to higher risk of physical or sexual assault from transgender women.Rhona Hotchkiss

Official figures show for the first time the true scale of offending by criminals who were born male but were allowed to move into female jails after changing gender. Convicted rapist Karen White pictured.

One in 50 male offenders in prisons are self-identifying as transgender, according to a survey by the official jail watchdog, amid concerns inmates may be attempting to secure extra perks.