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Dec 2015
UK government announces a review of the care and management of transgender offenders
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2016New prison policy by HMPPS entitled “On the Care and Management of Transgender Offenders”
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Mar 2017
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Oct 2017Fair Play For Women (FPFW) produces the first evidence that the male-born transgender prison cohort has a pattern of offending at least as high as the male prison cohort as a whole. Our analysis, later confirmed by the MOJ, shows that approximately half of transgender prisoners are located in sex offender units or category A prisons
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Nov 2017Andrew Bridgen MP tables a Parliamentary question asking the MOJ how many male born transgender prisoners are in female prisons and how many of them have convictions for sex offences. The answer: the data is not held
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Dec 2017FPFW makes a submission to the Justice Select Committee Inquiry “Prison Planning for 2022”
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Feb 2018Sunday Post reports the problems with a violent trans-identifying male murder convict in a Scottish prison.
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Oct 2018FPFW has first meeting with Ministry of Justice and HMPPS
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Dec 2018FPFW petition calls on the government to urgently review prison rules
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2019
FPFW maintains pressure through regular calls, emails and meetings with MoJ officials throughout the year.
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May 2019We publish an article in Inside Time magazine asking prisoners and staff to make contact to give their views on the accommodation of transwomen in female prisons. A number of prisoners responded
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July 2019Daily Telegraph reports that one in fifty prisoners now identifies as transgender
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Nov 2019A female prisoner launches a case against the MoJ for its transgender prisoner policy which put her at risk in prison. FPFW is an expert witness
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Feb 2021High Court hears the judicial review case.
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2 July 2021Judgement is made in favour of the MoJ. The policy is judged lawful, but the ruling confirms trans rights do conflict with women’s rights
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Jan 2023Media coverage of double rapist Isla Bryson/Adam Graham, 6’5″ convicted paedophile Katie Dolotowski and “Scotland’s most dangerous prisoner” Tiffany Scott/Andrew Burns, all of whom the Scottish prison service proposed to house in a women’s prison
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Feb 2023New prison policy in England and Wales comes into force. Male sex offenders and prisoners with male genitalia will not be transferred to women’s prisons, regardless of claimed identity.
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