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Ellie Ng

Gender ruling ‘could lead to trans prisoners getting seriously hurt’

The Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman could affect vulnerable prisoners (Andrew Milligan/PA) - (PA Archive)

The Supreme Court gender ruling could lead to trans prisoners getting “seriously hurt”, a trans woman who was moved from a men’s to a women’s prison a decade ago to serve a sentence has said.

Her comments come as a solicitor also warned the judgment by the UK’s highest court on Wednesday, that the definition of a woman in equality law is based on biological sex, could “gravely affect very vulnerable prisoners”.

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