Who gets the unacceptable risk?

The Beeb on the For Women Scotland win:

A judge has ruled that prison guidance which allows some transgender prisoners to be held in jails matching their gender identity, rather than their sex at birth, is unlawful.

Judge Lady Ross said sex segregation in prisons must be based on biological sex, based on a Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman in equalities law in April last year.

Campaign group For Women Scotland had challenged the Scottish government guidance through a judicial review, saying only those born biologically female should be held in the women’s estate.

Lawyers for the government argued this would breach transgender prisoners’ human rights and create an unacceptable risk of suicide.

And what about women prisoners? What about their rights? What about the unacceptable risks to them?

For Women Scotland brought the case following its successful appeal to the Supreme Court about the definition of a woman in the Equality Act.

Susan Smith, a co-director of the group, said it was “delighted” to have won a “comprehensive victory”.

“We hope that, in future, the Scottish government will start to listen to us rather than the lobby groups who drafted these policies and have so egregiously misled MSPs and MPs,” she said.

“We should never have needed to take this case and we hope this will be the last time that we are forced to go to law to defend the rights of women.”

But pretending that women are oppressing men is such fun!