Adam Graham decided to change his sex during a court case in which he is tried for two rapes and is locked up in a women’s prison. The intervention of the Prime Minister forced the transfer.
Nicola Sturgeon, the Scottish first minister who has already threatened to sue the British government that recently vetoed the new gender identity law passed by the Scottish parliament, is under fire for two transgender inmates. Since 2014, the guidelines of the Correctional Services have been to place inmates in prisons according to the gender with which they identify, but the case of Isla Bryson, convicted this week of two crimes of rape that she committed as a man, has weakened to the ruler.
The court ruled Tuesday that Isla Bryson, 31, must be sentenced for crimes of rape committed against two women while still a man named Adam Graham. Legally, he has not yet changed his sex or gender, but in the course of the legal process he ended up deciding to assume the female gender, even justifying that since she was a child she felt transgender and in the wrong body.
The question of where she would serve her sentence was immediately raised during the trial, since the crime of rape against two women was at stake. And it was decided that she should be placed in a women’s prison at least until sentencing. The case drew the attention of various political sectors and the Minister of Justice himself went so far as to say that if the decision was to keep Bryson in the women’s prison, it was because the Prime Minister agreed with it.
In less than 24 hours, however, Sturgeon came to tell Parliament that this inmate would not be in that women’s prison, but in a men’s one, recalls The Telegraph. The minister, who has been advocating a new package of legislation that is more permissive for transgender people (which was rejected by the British government), said it was impossible to put a rapist in a women’s prison and that each case should be looked at individually.
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Source: Observadora
