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‘It’s Not Complicated. If A Person Has A Penis, He’s A Man’: Journalist Attacks Sending Trans Women To Women’s Prisons

Hank Berrien
‘It’s Not Complicated. If A Person Has A Penis, He’s A Man’: Journalist Attacks Sending Trans Women To Women’s Prisons
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Writing at Spiked, British journalist Josephine Bartosch, who crusades for women’s rights, attacked the idea that biological men identifying as women should be allowed in women’s prisons, snapping, “It’s not complicated. If a person has a penis, he’s a man. And if he is sent to prison, it ought to be with other men.”

Bartosch started her essay by referencing a ruling by Great Britain’s High Court last week that high-risk male offenders, including rapists, could be situated in female prisons if they claim they are transgender.

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