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Originally Posted by BBXX

Look, that's obviously awful for the female officer and the process for investigation should be the same for whomever was the perpetrator and the punishment the same, but sorry I don't see why a trans woman should be put anywhere other than a women's prison... If a cis man was guilty of raping various men, he would still be put in a male prison, he wouldn't be put in a female prison to minimise risk of him assaulting other inmates.

But I have to ask, why are you linking the crime with their trans-ness? Why isn't it just the case they commit such a horrible crime because they were a criminal? Why are you linking it with their identity? Can't trans women be criminals just because, just like the cis women?

This always happens with minorities - a minority commits a crime and it's used as an illustration in an argument to try and justify something. Bad people are bad people.

What if it was a lesbian cis woman who sexually assaulted the prison officer? Would you ask for all lesbians to be put into another prison?

It wasn't a female officer who was assaulted, shows how much care you put into reading the article, it was a female inmate, and she was assaulted by a transwoman who had previous convictions for sexual assault, so in my view there is no way 'she' should have been in a female prison, is that normal for actual transwomen to be convicted of sexual assault??????? because personally I don't think it is, but clearly you are okay with it, if a lesbian was convicted of sexual assault I dont think she would be in the general population of inmates do you?