A transgender woman convicted of rape as a man will serve her prison sentence in Scotland with male inmates, authorities said.
Prime Minister Nicola Sturgeon said on Thursday that Isla Bryson would not be incarcerated in a women’s prison “in the short or long term” after media reported that Bryson had been transferred to Cornton Vale Women’s Prison, it reported. The Guardian.
The news that Bryson was in a women’s prison sparked an outcry from lawmakers and even United Nations officials.
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Isla Bryson, a transgender woman convicted of raping two women as a man, will not serve her sentence in a women’s prison, authorities said.
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“This rapist decided he was no longer a man after only appearing in court on a rape charge,” said Russell Findlay, a Conservative member of the Scottish Parliament. “Now we have the absolutely perverse situation whereby a Scottish court refers to someone who says they identify as a woman using ‘his penis’ to rape two vulnerable women. We warn of the inevitability of this happening if the sex law is passed. gender self-identification of the SNP, but that it has come true is a deep concern and an affront to the victims”.
Findlay was referring to a act passed by the scottish parliament last month that allows people as young as 16 to apply for a gender recognition certificate to confirm a change in one’s legal sex after living in their new gender for just three months, and without the need for a medical diagnosis of dysphoria of genre.
Bryson, 31, was found guilty this week of raping two women while she identified herself as a man formerly named Adam Graham, following a trial in Glasgow High Court. Prosecutors successfully argued during a six-day trial that Bryson attacked one victim in 2016 and another in 2019.
Both crimes took place in Scotland.
Isla Bryson, 31, formerly known as Adam Graham, from Clydebank, West Dunbartonshire, arrives at Glasgow High Court.
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The defendant first appeared in court as Graham and was referred to as such in a 2020 indictment. It was later that year, according to British press reports, that he decided to transition.
Fox News’ Aaron Kliegman contributed to this report.
