From yesterday's Sunday Times :
Davina Ayrton sentenced to 8 years for raping a schoolgirl when she was previously known as David, although she still has her male genetalia she expressed a wish to serve her time in a women's prison.
Jessica Winfield a transgender double rapist convicted under previous male identity was moved to a women's jail after having a sex change. She still managed to make inappropriate advances to female prisoners.
According to research a disproportionate number of transgender convicts are sex offenders. The British Psychological Society warned that some biological men convicted of sex crimes had "falsely claimed to be transgender to seek better access to females and young children through presenting in an apparently female way"
Fair Play for Women estimates despite the imprecision of the figures it appears likely that between a third and a half of all England and Wales's transgender prisoners, 41% are sex offenders. That compares with a proportion of 17% in the prison population as a whole.
If the government's proposals to allow gender self definition go through the number of biological men in female jails is expected to increase sharply. There is a conflict here between transgender rights and the rights of other people such as women states Fair Play for Women.
The effect can be seen in Scotland where this policy is broadly in place and most trans prisoners are allowed to transfer to women's units without a gender recognition certificate. Scotland has 18 transgender prisoners, including 13 male to female. One of the 13, Paris Green, was convicted of murder as a man and has twice been allowed to transfer to women's units before being moved out again after having sex with female inmates.
Another trans inmate, Tiffany Scott, convicted as a man for stalking a 13 year old girl, assault and other offences, punched a prison officer and threw a chair at the prison nurse when Scott was asking to be known as Mighty Almighty, this led to a court hearing at which Scott screamed that the presiding sheriff was a "fucking transphobic bastard" for referring to her by the wrong pro noun.