Exclusive: A transgender woman presented a conundrum to a Perth District Court Judge who did not know how to proceed with her sentencing amid confusion over whether she was legally a man or a woman.
A transgender woman presented a conundrum to a Perth District Court Judge who did not know how to proceed with her sentencing amid confusion over whether she was legally a man or a woman.
“I want to understand, if she’s not being treated as a female, then why that’s the case in circumstances where the Gender Reassignment Act says that the certificate is conclusive proof that she is female.” Riley said her client had been subjected to strip searches by male officers, which Egan said he wanted detailed in the report.
“And I need to understand, for the purposes of sentencing, whether the accused, as a sentenced female prisoner, will be housed in a female prison or a male prison.”
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