Question follow-through · 20298

Prisoners: Transgender People

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the HMPPS Offender Equalities Annual Report 2023-2024, published on 28 November 2024, how many of the 50 transgender prisoners who reported their legal gender as female were convicted of a sexua

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Answering body: Ministry of Justice
Tabled: 16 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 18 Dec 2024
Answer: 23 Dec 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling

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Opposition Day: Early release of prisoners · 7 Jul 2026

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Recorded timeline

16 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, with reference to the HMPPS Offender Equalities Annual Report 2023-2024, published on 28 November 2024, how many of the 50 transgender prisoners who reported their legal gender as female were convicted of a sexua
18 Dec 2024
Target answer date
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23 Dec 2024
Answer published
Of the 245 transgender prisoners who reported their legal gender as male (i.e. those who now identify as women, non-binary or gender-fluid) on 31 March 2024, 151 were convicted of a sexual offence. This includes both contact and non-contact sexual offence...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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