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Women’s rights: Prisons

(Last Updated: 13 January 2022)

Keep Prisons Single Sex – Leaflets – Download and print for distribution

Excluding Female Offenders in Policy and Practice – How the Scottish Prison Service overlooks the sex-based needs of women in prison
Keep Prisons Single Sex – November 2021

Women prisoners who call transgender inmates ‘he’ or ‘him’ face extra jail time
The Telegraph – 08/10/2021

‘I was sexually assaulted in a women’s prison… by a fellow inmate with male genitalia’: Read Amy’s story and decide – can it be right to put trans sex offenders in female jails?
Daily Mail (Julie Bindel) – 23/07/2021

Radical: Women are the casualties when judges capitulate to gender ideology
Conservative Home – 16/07/2021

Women’s prisons and male transgender prisoners
Women’s Place UK – 07/07/2021

Transgender prison policy: judicial review ruling confirms trans rights do conflict with women’s rights
Fair Play For Women – 06/07/2021

The law must protect women in prison
Sex Matters – 02/07/2021

Prison bosses put transgender sex offenders into female prisons because they need “association with other women”
Fair Play For Women – 16/05/2021

Head injuries suffered by 80% of women prisoners
BBC News – 14/05/2021

Transgender women exhibit a male-type pattern of criminality: Implications for legislators and policy makers
Fair Play For Women – 12/12/2020

Opaque and overdue: the Scottish Prison Service trans prisoner policy review
Dr Kath Murray, Lucy Hunter Blackburn and Lisa Mackenzie – 02/12/2020

We need open discussion on the welfare of women in prison
Rhona Hotchkiss – 10/12/2020

Women’s prisons should be single-sex
Kate Coleman – 17/12/2020

Prisons – Fair Play For Women

Ministry of Justice: Updated Policy on caring for Transgender Prisoners
STILLTish – 19/09/2019
Below is a quote from James Morton, of the Scottish Trans Alliance, which shows that Female prisoners are the subjects of a dangerous laboratory experiment. James is listed as an author of the Scottish Prisons Policy which deals with Transgender Prisoners. As James is a lobbyist for Trans Rights there is only one group at the forefront of the policy. Spoiler. It’s not Women.

‘We strategized – we strategized – that by working intensively with the Scottish Prison Service to support them to include trans women as women on a self-declaration basis within very challenging circumstances, we would be able to ensure that all other public services should be able to do likewise’.

The above quote is illustrative of a complete disregard for the female prison population; one of the most vulnerable groups in our society. Domestic violence refuges, rape crisis centres and female prisons do seem to figure prominently in the targeted locations. Captive females are being targeted for this new branch of Men’s rights activism.

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Equally Safe: Consultation on Prostitution (Scotland)

The Scottish Government held a consultation on prostitution called Equally Safe. This closed on 10 December 2020.

The Nordic Model Now! campaign group provided a simple two-step method to respond to the consultation using a template.

  • The Cross-Party Group on Commercial Sexual Exploitation provided guidance in tackling the questions related to demand.
  • Nordic Model Now! published guidance on responding to all nine questions in the consultation.
  • Women’s Support Project provided briefing notes.

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Feminists at Law Journal: The Future of Legal Gender

Vol 10 No 2 (2020) of Feminists @ Law Journal was a special issue that focused on the Future of Legal Gender project, specifically on the topic of ‘decertification’.

Here is a list of all of the related papers published in that issue:

Introduction to the Special Issue on the Future of Legal Gender: Exploring the Feminist Politics of Decertification
Davina Cooper, Emily Grabham, Flora Renz

Pulling the thread of decertification: What challenges are raised by the proposal to reform legal gender status?
Davina Cooper and Robyn Emerton

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There’s been an outbreak of slates…

Image of a large piece of rock and a grey slate placed on it with the dictionary definition of the word woman, that is, an adult human female.

Wonderful messages written on slates have been appearing all over Scotland, thanks to some adventurous women. Do you think you can spot some of the slates for yourselves? If you do, share your pictures on Twitter with the hashtag #WomenWontWheest.

The Edinburgh Reporter ran a brief article on the campaign – National campaign arrives in Edinburgh (22 November 2020)

You can view all the pictures on our Flickr photostream and we have also grouped many of them into albums by areas around Scotland. WSS takes no credit for the Slate Women campaign. We are simply collecting together images of the efforts of women taking action by themselves and with others.

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FLICKR ALBUMS (SLATES BY AREAS)

You can join the campaign too! Scotland is never short of slates. Find a few pieces, give them a good clean and then write messages on them using paint. It can be about women’s rights, freedom of speech, quotes from books, or your thoughts and concerns in your own words. Place the slates in locations where you think other people might come across them. If you are able to, you can drill some holes around the edges of the slates so they can be secured with plastic ties to help them stay in place.

Take pictures of your artistic accomplishment (make sure you zoom in so the written message is easy to read) and send them to us at info@womenspeakscotland.com with a rough idea of the location. We will add it to the rest of the online collection.

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