Woman wrongly sent to male prison in Scotland because of ‘masculine features’

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1. >“An assumption was made, based on someone’s appearance and not much else. Gender in the prison system has become such a hot topic that management will be mortified by this.

   And every single trans person has warned that this will happen if TERFs get their way. They bullied a female Algerian boxer in the Olympics (it’s illegal to be LGBT in Algeria, so imagine the danger it put her in), and now we have a case of a cis woman being sent to a male prison because some people think she is “not woman enough”. If this goes on every woman with short hair and broad shoulders will be barred from using female toilets and changing rooms. TERFs are the real misogynies, not trans advocates.

2. Exactly as expected. It has been said many times that it isnt just trans people who are harmed. But the anti-Trans lobby will find some way of turning this around and blame trans people, I’m sure.

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4. This is an inevitable consequence of the anti-trans moral panic. It’s a numbers game. There simply are so many more cis women who don’t conform to people’s expectations of gender. Trans women are a tiny minority in comparison. But the reporting on trans issues would have people believing that any person who doesn’t conform with cultural gender aesthetics is probably transgender.

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6. All the top making exactly the same wrong assumption as to how this happened….

7. This is what your fearmongering gets you. Better hope no one decides you’re part of the out-group.

8. > The For Women Scotland campaign group said the incident showed the dangers of “sloppy recording and reporting of sex”, as opposed to a person’s gender identity.

   > “They have to stop being frightened of recording a person’s sex,” the group said.

   For some reason, For Women Scotland didn’t offer any recommendations for how a person’s sex should be recorded accurately.

   Perhaps they realised openly advocating for women who haven’t even been convicted of a crime to be stripped naked and have their genitals inspected by police officers could poke holes in their “women’s rights” facade.

9. The mistake was “when the more thorough search was carried out by prison staff”. Maybe the simple fix is just to conduct that search earlier in the process.

10. “We can always tell!”

    If only someone had warned us that something like this would happen if TERFs got their way.

11. Aaaand here we go, the natural endpoint of stoking all this transphobia: misogyny.

    Bigotry really does tend to be intersectional.

12. If it’s sufficiently safe in male prisons for a trans woman offenders to be forced there long term, shouldn’t this mean a single day would be a non-issue?

    No can’t possibly be that everyone suddenly understands the stakes when it’s a cis woman put in that situation.

13. Everyone said this was gonna happen but nobody would listen! I recently had to stick up for a woman in the toilets because some terfs tried to say she was a man. She wasn’t at all, just a bit muscular. It’s getting worse for women out here, not better.

14. Gee I wonder what the sea of deleted comments were saying?

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