Yahoo News (AAP): Trans jail ban sparks outrage amid inmate safety debate

A move to bar trans women from a territory’s female prisons has been slammed amid a debate over the safety risk to inmates.
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Alastair Lawrie, policy and advocacy director at the Justice and Equity Centre, said the NT government’s decision to place trans women in men’s prisons was discriminatory and wrong.

“Prisoners should be housed in correctional facilities that match their gender identity,” he told AAP on Wednesday.

“Trans women are women and should be in women’s prisons. Trans men are men and should be in men’s prisons.”

Prisons managed risk all the time and should do so based on risk, not on gender identity and without political intervention, Mr Lawrie said.

“Prisons have a responsibility to prevent sexual assaults against people in their care and that can and should be done without discrimination.”