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Prisoners: Transgender People

To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will take steps to ensure that biological males who identify as female are not housed in women’s prisons.

answeredMinistry of Justice

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Answering body
Ministry of Justice
Tabled
10 Feb 2025
Target answer date
12 Feb 2025
Answer
19 Feb 2025 · 9 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 10 Feb 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, if she will take steps to ensure that biological males who identify as female are not housed in women’s prisons.

  2. 12 Feb 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 19 Feb 2025

    Answer published

    We take the allocation of transgender prisoners very seriously. It is right that there are safeguards in place to protect the safety of vulnerable women, and well over 90% of transgender women in custody are held in men’s prisons.Transgender women who hav...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

Later records

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