Reports that over 60 percent of Scottish transgender prisoners only transitioned after being locked up have been deemed “shocking but unsurprising” by women’s rights campaigners.
Of the 19 transgender prisoners currently in Scotland’s prisons, 12 are recorded as beginning their transition “after their date of admission,” according to The Telegraph.
The figures, disclosed to the newspaper under the Freedom of Information Act, also reveal there were seven trans women—biological men identifying as female—being allowed to serve their sentences in the women’s estate.
The Scottish Prison Service (SPS) said in its response to The Telegraph that “of those seven, less than five individuals in our care were recorded as beginning their transition after their date of conviction.”…