When TERFs talk about men invading women’s spaces, they often include women’s prisons. Earlier this month, U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland testified at a Senate Judiciary Committee oversight hearing and told Sen. Lindsay Graham that “every person in prison has to be dealt with with dignity and respect” after Graham asked if Garland had any concerns about biological males posing a risk to female prisoners. Graham asked Merrick if he was aware that there are 1,200 prisoners requesting to be sent from a male federal prison to a female prison.

Over in the U.K., it looks like transgender woman Zara Jade is going to be locked up in a men’s prison after stabbing and tying up a woman.

BBC News reports:

A transgender woman who stabbed her vulnerable victim before tying her to a chair and demanding cash has been jailed.

Zara Jade, 54, attacked her victim at a Halifax flat last year and left her tied up while she went to an ATM.

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Jade, who the court heard was transitioning, knew what she did was wrong and would be punished, according to defence barrister Richard Canning.

He added Jade had struggled with alcohol and had made “bad decisions” while in drink.

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Judge Clayson was told that back in 1988 Jade had been locked up for five years for rape and other sexual offences and in 2013 she had been jailed again for another sexual matter.

Jade will now have to serve two-thirds of a nine year jail sentence and she will then be subject to an extended licence period of three years.

She was also handed a 12-year restraining order.

Jade will serve her sentence in a male prison, after new rules banning some transgender women from female prisons in England and Wales came into force last month.

Of course, the LGBTQ community went nuts when those new rules went into place.

We haven’t been to Halifax but …

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Related:

https://twitchy.com/brettt-3136/2023/03/29/bbc-halifax-woman-in-the-uk-will-serve-her-prison-sentence-in-a-male-prison/