NICOLA Sturgeon has said that the Scottish Parliament’s gender reform legislation “doesn’t in any way change the system” which determines what prison transgender criminals are sent to.
In the wake of the conviction of Isla Bryson, who was found guilty on Tuesday of raping two women before she transitioned, the First Minister said that people needed to “focus on the facts” when they were discussing Bryson’s case and the issue of housing transgender criminals in the prison system.
It is understood that Bryson is currently being held in Cornton Vale women’s prison although will not be accommodated alongside the jail’s general population.
