As I'm continually pointing out, watch Europe, because what the European left does now, the American left will try tomorrow. Our domestic leftists have long used Europe as a role model, and that's only going to continue.
And, as we might well predict, the latest such example comes to us in the form of a new wrinkle in the transgender issue in the United Kingdom. A recent UK Supreme Court decision in the case, For Women Scotland Ltd v The Scottish Ministers, established that only sex, not "gender" shall be used as the determination regarding such things as single-sex services and spaces, pregnancy and maternity protections, single-sex associations and charities, sports, and communal accommodations.
You can view that decision here.
That seems simple enough, doesn't it? Only women, not men claiming to be women, should be put in single-sex services and spaces. That would include jails (or gaols) and prisons.
The Staffordshire police department doesn't see it that way.
A police force is placing biological men in women’s cells despite the Supreme Court ruling that transgender women are not legally women.
Staffordshire Police says its custody policy means “detainees may be placed in accommodation consistent with their gender identity”, The Telegraph can reveal.
That means biological men who identify as transgender women can be placed in women’s-only custody cells.
The force introduced the rules in the wake of last April’s Supreme Court ruling that sex in equality law refers to biological sex, which has been widely interpreted as meaning that biological men cannot use female single-sex facilities.
It has become a troubling sign of acceptance in this issue that we are still seeing the "biological male" horse squeeze. Sex is, fundamentally, a matter of biology. "Biological male" is a redundancy. These people are male. Period. And the Staffordshire Police are placing them in confinement with women.
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The Staffordshire Police claim that it's enough to place them in different cells. Baloney.
Staffordshire Police told The Telegraph that detainees were not put at risk as they were kept in separate cells, and that searching decisions were made on an individual basis in compliance with the law.
Documents released under freedom of information laws show that the force has updated its transgender searching policy and equality impact assessment custody policy in the wake of the Supreme Court ruling.
In the latter, the force notes that detainees are allowed “to self-identify their gender” and this “is respected in records”. The documents also say the force has an “explicit policy commitment to self-identification”.
Separate cells? What about common areas? Even in a short-term jail, there are bound to be areas where prisoners are held in a group.
This is, as many women's rights groups have pointed out, a very dangerous practice. Examples abound, but here are three well-publicized cases:
- 2018: In the UK, a "transgender woman" named Karen White was sent to a women's prison, HMP New Hall, while facing charges of rape and sexual assault. While in New Hall, White sexually assaulted several female inmates. White later pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault, as well as to rapes committed before he was imprisoned.
- 2021: In California, a "transgender woman" named Tremaine Carroll was transferred to the Central California Women’s Facility under California’s SB 132, the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act. This disastrous decision led to Carroll's attack on two female inmates, one of whom happened in a shower - yes, California put a male sexual predator in a shower with women. Carroll was eventually sent back to a men's facility.
- 2026: In Scotland, a "transgender woman" named Alexandra Stewart was serving a life sentence for murder in HMP Greenock, in the women's unit. Stewart was charged with the sexual assault of a female inmate in the prison's hair salon, of all things.
There are more, but you get the idea.
The pushback on the Staffordshire Police is already underway.
Cathy Larkman, a director of the Women’s Rights Network and a retired police superintendent, said: “These policies do not comply with the Supreme Court judgment, and they indicate a level of ignorance with the law and a disregard for the rights of women that is deeply concerning.”
And:
Ms Larkman said: “Police officers in Staffordshire have a difficult enough job as it is on the challenging front line of policing.
“They deserve clear, unambiguous and above all else, lawful guidance that helps them navigate sensitive and challenging tactics like strip-searching members of the public.
That guidance is simple enough: All prisoners with an XY chromosome pairing go in the men's jail. All prisoners with an XX chromosome pairing go into the women's jail. End of discussion. If there's any doubt about a particular prisoner, a quick cheek swab will decide the matter, as the Brits might put it, in a trice.
In this matter, the Staffordshire Police appear to be openly defying the intent of the UK Supreme Court. And on our side of the pond, we should take this as a warning, because our domestic left will use it as a guideline for future action. We are already seeing an escalation in rhetoric around our own Supreme Court; the left wants to either pack the Court with leftist justices, or, in the case of the Democratic Socialists of America, abolish it altogether. And, just like in the United Kingdom, there are people at every level of government who are determined to perpetuate every bit of leftist hooraw.
What the left does in Europe today, they will try here tomorrow.
