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Zoe Williams

Why are trans rights in prison so rarely defended?

HMP Styal women's prison in Cheshire.
HMP Styal women's prison in Cheshire. Photograph: Andrew Aitchison/Corbis/Getty Images

On Tuesday, Prof Kathleen Stock did a media round, following a fresh row about her appearance at the Oxford Union that day and a Channel 4 documentary, Gender Wars.

It would be repetitive and a bit Pavlovian to react again and again to everything she says – I caught her on LBC – and I question how helpful it would be. But there was one line that went unchallenged, because it always does: that “there are very vulnerable females in prison in close quarters with male rapists due to these ridiculous policies”.

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