‘Violent sex offending’ trans prisoner in women’s correctional facility

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The boss of Women’s Forum Australia is requesting Corrections Victoria remove a transgender prisoner from a women’s correctional facility in Melbourne.

The organisation’s CEO Rachael Wong told Sky News host Chris Kenny that housing a violent sex offender “with a working penis” in a women’s prison, with the person having already committed sexual offences against women, is “clearly not ideal at all and is a complete failure of the system”.

“We’re not saying that this person shouldn’t have their own rights protected and that they shouldn’t have their own safety protected,” Wong said.

“What we are saying is that it shouldn’t be happening at the expense of women’s rights and women’s safety.”

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