https://www.scottishdailyexpress.co.uk/news/politics/snp-claims-prisoners-become-sexless-36525889
The Scottish Government has been ridiculed after claiming that if it wasn't allowed to house biological men in female prisons, it would render some transgender prisoners "sexless." It is the latest legal argument put forward by SNP Ministers battling to breach the Supreme Court gender ruling.
A legal submission put forward by the government's lawyers state that prisoners would be left "in an intermediate zone of neither one sex nor the other" if there were to be strict "segregation" by biological sex. We previously told how SNP Ministers were privately seeking a legal "declaration of incompatibility" to allow thThey argue that banning biological men who identify as female from women's jails would amount to an unlawful breach of their human rights. John Swinney suggested it would leave the government vulnerable to potential legal action as it could breach the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).em to ignore the Supreme Court ruling in prisons.
The Scottish Government has been ridiculed after claiming that if it wasn't allowed to house biological men in female prisons, it would render some transgender prisoners "sexless." It is the latest legal argument put forward by SNP Ministers battling to breach the Supreme Court gender ruling.
A legal submission put forward by the government's lawyers state that prisoners would be left "in an intermediate zone of neither one sex nor the other" if there were to be strict "segregation" by biological sex. We previously told how SNP Ministers were privately seeking a legal "declaration of incompatibility" to allow thThey argue that banning biological men who identify as female from women's jails would amount to an unlawful breach of their human rights. John Swinney suggested it would leave the government vulnerable to potential legal action as it could breach the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).em to ignore the Supreme Court ruling in prisons.