Keep trans women out of women’s jails

 I read Cyrus S’s letter, ‘Where should trans women be detained?’ (Mailbag, December) and felt that I must reply. First, I support those who are genuinely in the wrong body, but to answer your question, trans women should be detained in men’s jails, no ifs and buts.

You may be a woman in a man’s body, but you are a man. I am not being horrible saying that, it’s a fact. Too many women get sexually assaulted by men and it needs to stop.  Female prisoners, in the past, have been assaulted by so-called trans women prisoners transferred from men’s jails to female jails.

At the end of the day, no prisoner with the reproductive organs of a man should never be located and housed in a female jail. The risks heavily outweigh the benefits. If and when an actual sex change has taken place, then and only then should a female jail be considered. That is my opinion.