[Ammi]

A transgender woman has been sent to a men’s prison in an ‘outrageous’ move her mother says will endanger and ‘humiliate’ her.

Make-up artist Tara Hudson, 26, has lived as a woman all her adult life and has gone through six years of gender reconstruction surgery.

But magistrates sent the young woman – who admitted a bar assault - to a male prison because her passport says she is still a male.

Her mother last night said: ‘There’s nothing male about her, nobody would know the difference. She looks like a woman. She’s gorgeous.

‘We think it’s totally outrageous. I don’t think she will cope well at all. I just feel the men are going to go after her. It’s going to be humiliating.’

Mother Jackie Brooklyn said her daughter’s doctor had even confirmed that she is now a woman.

But Bath magistrates sentenced Tara to 12 weeks inside the tough all-male Bristol prison after she admitted assault.

Tara - who was born Aaron - admitted the crime after an incident at an All Bar One on Boxing Day 2014.

She changed her plea to guilty last month but her mother said she was only expecting her to be put on an electronic tag and made to undergo an alcohol awareness course.

She thought it magistrates did think the crime justified a prison sentence, her daughter would be sent to a women’s jail.

Miss Brooklyn has now written to the court and the prison governor in a bid to overturn the decision.

She said: ‘I just want to get my daughter into a safe, female environment where she belongs and will continue to fight the decision.’

The mother said her daughter regularly gets abuse for her gender status and is on a hormone replacement course as well as medication for depression.

She said her daughter was a qualified makeup artist and wants to pursue it as a career but has been off work due to her health and a social worker has cared for her.

Miss Brooklyn added: ‘I don’t want her going backwards with her mental health. She’s been through a hard time and this could set her right back.

‘I don’t think the magistrates have taken that into consideration.

‘I fear that it is a potentially dangerous situation for her to be in and feel strongly that she would be far safer in a female environment.

‘While I understand it is a complex issue, the treatment of transgender individuals by the British judicial system is one that clearly requires greater attention and thought.

‘The primary focus should be the safety and wellbeing of those involved.’

Miss Hudson spent most of her childhood living in Bath with her mum and moved out into her own flat at 16.

Last night Tara’s mother, 48, said that her daughter still had the vestige remains of a penis, despite having 34EE breasts.

She said the hormone treatment had shrunken Tara’s ‘manhood’ and she was due to have it removed ‘at some point’ and was still taking hormone treatment she has been receiving for some years.

Last year prison inspectors reported that levels of violence had ‘risen sharply’ at Bristol Prison and not ‘enough was being done to protect some vulnerable prisoners’.

HM Inspectorate of Prisons carried out the inspection last autumn and said levels of violence had risen since their last visit and ‘were now considerably higher than in similar prisons’.

They said not enough was being done to ‘investigate individual violent incidents’ and the prison was not dealing with perpetrators and victims.

The prison was previously criticised following an unannounced inspection in May 2013 when concerned inspectors said they would ‘return earlier than usual’.

HMP Bristol is a category B local prison holding around 600 young adult and adult men.

A Prison Service spokesperson said last night: ‘It is longstanding policy to place offenders according to their legally recognised gender.

‘There are strict rules in place to ensure transsexual prisoners are managed safely and in accordance with the law.’


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[kirklancaster]

This beggars belief??????

Those responsible should be removed from their positions.

[Niamh.]

That's awful

[Will.]

mess

[Vanessa]

Madness putting a woman in an all male prison

[Cal.]

Don't do the assault in the first place hoe

[DemolitionRed]

Regardless of the crime she committed, this is a woman who should be in a female prison.

Disgusting but I'm glad its been brought to light.

[smudgie]

Surely when the legal status changes should be looked into
If she has had the hormone treatment and it is now a case of waiting for the surgery then she could/should have her status as a woman.
Insane to put her in a male prison when to all intent and purpose she looks like and lives her life as a woman.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Who Is She?

Don't do the assault in the first place hoe

And she deserves to do her sentence but it should be in a female prison. Can you imagine sending someone who looks like that into a male prison? You know what will happen to her in there, no one deserves that.

[Crimson Dynamo]

lovely tattoo of a gun on her leg

[Tom4784]

Those magistrates should be sacked, it's an awful transphobic decision that's also going to put her in great danger.

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Dezzy

Those magistrates should be sacked, it's an awful transphobic decision that's also going to put her in great danger.

We're agreeing too much Dez.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I would imagine that the "woman" has spent quite a lot of money on boob jobs and the like but has not bothered to try and change her gender legally and as such when sentenced the law states that what is on your BC and passport is what you must be tried as, thus the magistrate had little choice legally.


The person seems like a vicious thug so I have little sympathy.

[Mystic Mock]

I thought that the law stated that if you identify as the other gender for a whole year that you legally get to become that gender? I know she didn't change her passport etc, but she did have the operation which is more than enough for me and should be more than enough for the law.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Mystic Mock

I thought that the law stated that if you identify as the other gender for a whole year that you legally get to become that gender? I know she didn't change her passport etc, but she did have the operation which is more than enough for me and should be more than enough for the law.

She hasn't had the operation yet (I don't disagree with the rest of your post though)

[Ammi]

'She has spent her entire adult life living as a woman and has been medically declared as a woman by her doctor'

[arista]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

lovely tattoo of a gun on her leg

Well Hard

[Ammi]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

I would imagine that the "woman" has spent quite a lot of money on boob jobs and the like but has not bothered to try and change her gender legally and as such when sentenced the law states that what is on your BC and passport is what you must be tried as, thus the magistrate had little choice legally.


The person seems like a vicious thug so I have little sympathy.

..she just hasn't had her final surgery which would give her a gender recognition certificate..and I don't understand 'seems like a thug' as we only know of this one assault, which she pleaded guilty to and why that would mean she deserves being placed in danger in prison...

[Northern Monkey]

Maybe since Transgenderism is on the rise it's time to build a prison for them to save the confusion.It says that this person still has a small penis so is not fully transformed.Maybe the judge was thinking that it might make the real women in a womens prison feel uncomfortable which would cause more disturbances.
Maybe in the judges eyes it was the least worst option.
However a mans prison is not the place for somebody with such a female appearance either.
They more than likely need to segregated for the full sentence.
I think a transgender prison is deffo needed since it is a gender now.

[bots]

sentencing obviously has to follow the legalities of the situation to the letter. Its like legal ages of responsibility and everything else. If she is not deemed to be legally a woman, then that's how it must be. At the end of the day, the issue would never have arisen if she hadn't broken the law so I have zero sympathy.

If the situation were reversed and it was a female to male transgender, I bet there would be zero calls for him to go to a male prison.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by Northern Monkey

Maybe since Transgenderism is on the rise it's time to build a prison for them to save the confusion.It says that this person still has a small penis so is not fully transformed.Maybe the judge was thinking that it might make the real women in a womens prison feel uncomfortable which would cause more disturbances.
Maybe in the judges eyes it was the least worst option.
However a mans prison is not the place for somebody with such a female appearance either.
They more than likely need to segregated for the full sentence.
I think a transgender prison is deffo needed since it is a gender now.

Prisons are stretched for funding as it is I seriously doubt there is the numbers to warrant opening a prison for transgender people.

[Niamh.]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

sentencing obviously has to follow the legalities of the situation to the letter. Its like legal ages of responsibility and everything else. If she is not deemed to be legally a woman, then that's how it must be. At the end of the day, the issue would never have arisen if she hadn't broken the law so I have zero sympathy

You think she deserves to be thrown into a prison full of men and probably end being raped on a daily basis then? Have you seen the pictures of her?

[bots]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

You think she deserves to be thrown into a prison full of men and probably end being raped on a daily basis then? Have you seen the pictures of her?

i think that special circumstances should avail at the prison she is sent to and I believe that is exactly what is happening.

Many different types of people require specific protection when they go to prison, I don't see this being any different.

[Northern Monkey]

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Prisons are stretched for funding as it is I seriously doubt there is the numbers to warrant opening a prison for transgender people.

Probably not.In the meantime though this is undoubtedly going to cause alot of discomfort for people.Something needs to be done.Maybe dedicated wings of a prison/prisons.Supposing a transgender person walks into the shower with or is getting changed with men or women?It will cause problems either way.Some pervy men may do/say inappropriate things and women may feel very uncomfortable showering/changing with what is in biological terms still a man.That could lead to assaults on the transgender person from women and possibly even riots.This person will undoubtedly end up segregated for the majority of their sentence which is also unfair and potentially psychologically damaging.Only the worst of the worst are restricted human contact for safety reasons.A simple assault does not warrant that type of segregation.

[Jamie89]

Well I'd like to know what Germaine Greer has to say on the issue