Nicola Sturgeon defends Gender Reform Bill in light of recent cases of violent trans prisoners

The Scottish Government has been under fire for the past week after double rapist Isla Bryson was placed in a segregation unit in Cornton Vale after conviction and reports emerged that Tiffany Scott – who was convicted of stalking a 13-year-old girl – may be moved to the female estate.

On Sunday, Justice Secretary Keith Brown announced an urgent review to look at the handling of the Bryson case and run parallel to another review of the wider transgender prisoner policy.

Current Scottish Prison Service (SPS) policy requires a risk assessment to be undertaken before a transgender prisoner can be placed in the estate with which they identify, but the change will stop any with a history of violence against women – including sexual violence – from being placed in Cornton Vale or any women’s unit across the country until the policy has been reviewed.

Speaking to journalists on Monday, the First Minister said: “The arrangements for dealing with transgender prisoners hasn’t changed, they’ve been in place for some time.

“The cases that have been in the media in recent days, those risk assessments were under way.

“There is no reason to assume that the outcome in both of those cases would not have been that they should be in a man’s prison.

“But given the focus and given the concerns that have been posed as a result of the focus on these cases, what we have done is bring absolute clarity to that.”

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[Behindstage]

When you intentionally and knowingly create bad law just so it’s blocked by ukgov for grievance points…you get this shambles. Independent Scotland…this is a vision of the future.

[wingnut]

Absolutely a wrong yin she needs gone any supporter of the snp after this needs their browsing history looked at by the police

[stillgame]

Nicola write your resignation letter, it’s over, your done.

[vtechead]

It’s all come back to bite her, and she cannot hack it.

[vanhooler]

There is a woman, there is a man, nothing more, do not go against Mother nature.

[jamesfindlay]

TYPICAL STURGEON TRYING TO DEFEND THE INDEFENSIBLE

[stuartfowler]

She or is it he is past her sell by date. Please resign for the sake of your long suffering country

[secondchance]

On the one hand if a man identifies as a woman he can be put in a woman's prison because he is a she, but if a man who identifies as a woman commits a certain crime he has to be put in a man's prison even though he is a she. Yeah that makes sense.

[DM-leyi]

Stop trying to defend the indefensible you messed up big time Sturgeon. Time to go

[scottgalloway]

She just talks on and on and on, and none of the journalists challenge her

[charleslouden]

Krankie, the life's and loves of a shedevil.

[SRC]

Oh dear Nicola your bosses at WEF will not be happy with you tut tut

[jamesmoyes]

Any human being that supports this none sense needs to make an appointment with a psychologist.

[jamesmoyes]

Handcuffs and straight jacket very appropriate tools.

[natkingcol]

This is what happens when you buy into the idea that men can become women.. Let's just keep men in men's prisons and focus on things that actually matter shall we? Like our crumbling NHS, educational standards and drug use...

[eleanorcrawford]

So in short she is going to push through this bill no matter what anyone says about it.

[johnperrow]

The snp are spinning like peeries, we need to whip them a little bit more and spin them off the planet (god I'm showing my age )