There are circumstances
Unbelievable.
Sturgeon: “Trans women are women but in the prison context there is no automatic right for a trans woman – “
Interviewer: “There are contexts where a trans woman is not a woman.”
Sturgeon: “No there is” – nervous laugh – “there is circumstances in which a trans woman will be housed in the male prison estate, because [inaudible].”
WAIT WAIT WAIT.
Why?
You say trans women are women. You firmly slap down any suggestion that they are not. If trans women are women then how in HELL can there be “circumstances” in which they’ll be housed with the men? How can that possibly make any sense if they are women?
Game over.
what a tangled web we weave
“And those circumstances are when we’ve been caught, it looks really bad, photos are published, and we just can’t bluff our way through or out of it any longer. At that point, those “transwomen” magically become male, and we are forced, reluctantly, and through no fault of our own, to house them in the male estate. But all those other “transwomen” in women’s prisons will remain actual, real women until it becomes too embarrassing for us, etc. (see above), at which point, they too might very well poof into being male. It’s very much wait and see. It’s complicated! Quit asking me!!”