Ireland may have to consider introducing policies similar to those in Scotland around where to house trans women in prisons, Irish premier Leo Varadkar has said. It follows a prominent case that preceded Nicola Sturgeon’s resignation as First Minister as the SNP leader sought to push through a series of gender reforms.
In January Isla Bryson, a transgender woman convicted of raping two women while she was a man, was moved to the men’s estate in a Scottish prison. She had previously been kept in a segregation unit away from other prisoners in the women’s section of the facility.
Scottish Prison Service took the decision to halt the movement of all transgender prisoners with a history of violence against women into the female estate. Bryson, 31, from Clydebank, was sentenced to eight years in prison last month.
