questionText: To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the HM Prison and Service Offender Equalities Annual Report 2022-23, published on 30 November 2023, how many and what proportion of transgender prisoners convicted of a sexual offence were registered as (a) male and (b) female at birth.
answerText: We have strengthened our policy so that no transgender woman convicted of either a sexual or violent offence, or who retains male genitalia, can be held in the general women’s estate, other than in truly exceptional circumstances, which must be signed off...
heading: Prisoners: Transgender People