SNP justice minister refuses to intervene after trans woman rapist sent to Cornton Vale
Scotland's Justice Secretary has refused to intervene to ensure that a transgender woman convicted of raping two women while she was a man is not held in a women’s prison.
It comes after the UK Government blocked controversial gender reform legislation in Scotland which would speed up and simplify the process for trans people to obtain a gender recognition certificate . Brown replied: "Of course the Gender Recognition Reform Bill, had it not been stopped by another government, completely wrongly, would not have changed the Scottish Prison Service’s approach to trans prisoners, which is not dependent on possession of a GRC .”
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