Female prison officers have been raped by inmates who self-identify as trans women, ex-Tory minister Rory Stewart claims
Mr Stewart told GQ magazine: 'When I was Prisons Minister, we had situations of male prisoners selfidentifying as females then raping staff in prison.'
It was reported last year there are up to 1,500 inmates who describe themselves as transgender among the 90,000 prisoners in England and Wales – raising concerns that some are claiming to be trans to get access to women's jails.
In 2018, a transgender inmate was found to have sexually assaulted women in a female prison.
In the interview with GQ, Mr Stewart was asked about so-called 'self-ID' policies, which could mean anyone who identifies as a woman is allowed to go into female-only spaces, such as changing rooms and toilets.
He replied: 'I'm instinctively worried about that, partly because when I was Prisons Minister, we had situations of male prisoners self-identifying as females then raping staff in prison.
'So I think if somebody is biologically male, particularly in an environment like a prison, we shouldn't allow that to happen.
'We have to be pretty cautious about how we think that happens in other spaces.
'The important thing is: I think the rights of women to feel safe trump the rights of somebody who's biologically male to enter that space.'
The Ministry of Justice recently said policies are in place to manage the risks that might be posed by male-bodied prisoners who say they are trans women.
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