New Scottish transgender prison rules are “sexist” and will lead to vulnerable women being traumatised, MSPs have been warned.
Campaigners are calling on Holyrood politicians to block new guidelines, introduced in the wake of the Isla Bryson scandal, from coming into force, amid claims they are worse than the policy they replaced.
The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) plans to allow even trans criminals with a history of violence against women to be housed in female jails if it is deemed there is “compelling” evidence that they do not pose “an unacceptable risk of harm”.
