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'Blanket Rule' for Trans Prisoners Would Violate Rights, Ministers to Argue
The Scottish Government will argue next month that banning transgender prisoners from women’s prisons breaches the European Convention on Human Rights, despite legal challenges.
- The Scottish Government will tell the Court of Session on February 3 that a blanket ban on housing biological males in female prisons would breach the ECHR, Articles 8 and 14.
- After winning a Supreme Court case last year, For Women Scotland argues ministers must provide women-only prison accommodation and says current guidance wrongly allows male prisoners in the female estate.
- Scottish ministers' published legal papers argue that the Equality Act 2010 'does not mandate sex segregation' and that individualised assessments, citing low opposite-sex placements since 2006, guide prison policy.
- Scottish ministers will defend the policy in court, publishing their note of argument ahead of next month’s hearing amid cross-party criticism and questions for First Minister John Swinney.
- After the Isla Bryson case, the Scottish Prison Service houses 80% of transgender prisoners in an estate matching their biological sex, amid guidance from the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture.
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SNP argue that prisons shouldn't be single-sex and that ban on men in female prisons breaches their human rights - Scottish Daily Express
The Scottish Government is using taxpayer cash to defend its position that jails shouldn't be single sex - and that dangerous men should be allowed to be housed with vulnerable women.
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