[Vicky.]

Originally Posted by Jamie89

I think the reason we have separate prisons for men and women is to do with safety, mainly keeping female prisoners safe from male prisoners. So it just seems odd to me that we have that as a staple of our prison system yet when it comes to safety of other groups we don't have anything in place. I don't know what the ideal solution is but I don't accept the idea that they should just have to put with it because they're criminals. We don't accept that in regards to female prisoners so why trans prisoners?

The answer is quite obviously separate wings for transgender people. Not throwing them in with the females and thus putting the females in the very danger we were trying to avoid by separating by sex.

A hell of a lot of this 'trans' stuff seems to take '**** females and their safety' as a default position when talking about sex segregated areas. I disagree with that entirely and the obvious answer is separate areas for transgendered people. If this is 'othering'...so be it. There is NO other solution to this that doesn't throw half of the population under the bus. Females remain safe (or as safe as possible) and transgendered people are safe. Sorry if that sounds harsh.