Isla Bryson's detention in a women's prison sparked a fierce backlash and a similar case involving a trans offender emerged days later. It comes against a backdrop of Scotland passing a controversial gender law that the UK government used special powers to block.
The woman said she was sure Bryson is"faking it" and had chosen to change gender as"an easy way out" after the rapes.Ms Sturgeon said she believed that was"almost certainly the case" - but that it wasn't the"key question"."The key and only important factor in this is that the individual is convicted of rape," said Ms Sturgeon.
"The individual is a rapist - and that is the factor that should be the deciding one about the decisions about how that prisoner is now treated."making it easier for people to legally change gender.Despite agreeing that Bryson's transgender claim is probably a lie, Ms Sturgeon said she couldn't say whether the 31-year-old is a woman."That individual has been convicted of rapes and that therefore is the terminology.
"I'm not going to get into the individual circumstances of that particular individual's claims to be a woman because I don't have enough information about that."During the trial, Bryson told jurors she knew she was transgender at the age of four but didn't decide to transition until 29. She's now taking hormones and wants surgery.She told the Daily Mail:"Never once did he say anything to me about feeling he was in the wrong body or anything.
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