In an April interview in GQ magazine, a former Cabinet Minister said there were ‘situations of male prisoners self-identifying as females then raping staff in prison’.
Rory Stewart oversaw prisons from 2018-2019. It was already in the public domain that women prisoners had been raped, and it is possible that Stewart mis-spoke. In the interview he went on to demonstrate his belief that biology matters, stating: ‘I think the rights of women to feel safe trumps the rights of somebody who’s biologically male to enter that space.’
