A transgender woman
convicted of rape in Scotland will not be held in a women's prison, Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced Thursday, after two days of controversy.
Isla Bryson, formerly called Adam Graham, was convicted Tuesday of
the rape of two women
in 2016 and 2019 before they transitioned into becoming a woman.
Graham was convicted Tuesday of the rape of two women in 2016 and 2019 before they transitioned into a woman.
Justice will soon dictate its sentence, pending which it must be imprisoned.
And given her crimes, some worried that she would be confined to a women's prison.
"Given the legitimate concerns of the public and Members of Parliament in this case, I can confirm to Parliament that this detainee will not be held at Cornton Vale Prison for Women," Sturgeon announced.
The prison controversy
Parliamentarians from different parties had expressed concern about
the safety of the other dams
.
The Scottish penitentiary authorities ensured for their part that the decision of where to detain a transgender person is always made "on an individual basis" evaluating "the risk and the need".
"A transgender woman never has the automatic right to serve her sentence in a women's prison," Sturgeon said, after a spokesman for British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said the day before that he "understands the concerns" of those who opposed Bryson thus I would.
Bryson Island.
Many believe that she transformed to alleviate her situation in jail (Spindrift).
This controversy takes place at a time when the British central government has just blocked a law passed by the Scottish regional Parliament to facilitate the recognition of gender change.
Adam Graham, before his transition, married this woman who says "he cheated on me, he wants to do everything he can to not go to a men's prison" (Spindrift).
This clashes with criticism from feminist militants who denounce the risk that sexual predators take advantage of it to access places reserved for women, despite the guarantees provided by the text.
Sturgeon's pro-independence government accused Sunak of politically instrumentalizing the issue to limit the autonomous powers of Scottish deputies and LGBT+ activists denounced an attack by British Conservatives.
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