Scottish Labour commits to banning transgender women from female prisons if Anas Sarwar becomes first minister
https://news.sky.com/story/scottish-labour-commits-to-banning-transgender-women-from-female-prisons-if-anas-sarwar-becomes-first-minister-13502243
Posted by topotaul
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Anyone who supports this should look into v-coding.
Even Farage knows it would be abhorrent.
More performative cruelty from labour, that’ll fix things
And put them where, in a men’s prison? Wouldn’t they get constantly sexually abused?Â
Pretty sensible policy with broad public support. Claiming to be trans so that you can then abuse women in prison needs to stop.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-politics-64501436.amp
Reminder that there are 19 transgender people in Scottish prisons, and they are each assessed individually rather than a blanket rule for all
0.2% of the prison population we’re talking about here
IM VOTING LABOUR NOW INNIT I MEAN ITS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO ME IS GOINT AFTER AND HATING ON A TINY PERCENTAGE OF THE POPULATIONS ISNT IT SO IMPORTANT NOW THAT WE CANT GO AFTER THE GAYS. REMEMBER HOW THEY WOULD LOOK AT UR WILLY IN THE LOO WELL THATS TRANS PEOPLE.
/S btw
Things must be going swell if Labour can spare time to worry about something so niche.
In 2023, I was arrested for a minor offence that I won’t disclose, and there was potential at sentencing to get a prison sentence of up to a year. I was a 29 year old trans woman, disabled, autistic, a victim of SA.
Should I have been put in a men’s prison, I would have experienced such an extreme decline in my mental health, I would have been on suicide watch from day one. Even in a women’s prison, I would have struggled, but that’s what you get for breaking the law, isn’t it?
Is it fair to put me in a prison that risks my life and sanity, when one exists where I would have been okay? Because you think I, a victim of rape, might rape another? With no risk assessment? Nah.
On my sentencing, I spent an hour sat in probation while they decided what system I would have gone to if I’d received a custodial sentence, but when they established the magistrates weren’t considering a custodial sentence, they stopped the process, and I did not learn which way they would have decided. There were people – experts – making that decision, able to speak to me and consider where I and other prisoners were safest. That’s the correct system.
This is what happens when you get religious people in politicsÂ
He can talk all the shite he wants as he’s never getting in
Can only hope that Labour don’t get enough seats for this hate to become law?
What a weird thing to throw out there when they’re obviously not going to win, does he seriously think that culture war bs will actually help him or is he just saying it for the craic. Sooner this shit show of a party is dead in the ground the better.