Taxpayers face a legal bill of up to £400,000 after the SNP government’s ‘Orwellian’ policy of allowing trans women prisoners to be held alongside biological females was ruled ‘unlawful’.
Court of Session judge Lady Ross said it should be thrown out in a decision which campaigners said was a ‘victory’ for vulnerable women behind bars.
Feminist group For Women Scotland (FWS) had challenged the lawfulness of the Scottish Prison Service (SPS) stance on holding some trans women – who are biological men – in women’s prisons.
Its lawyer Aidan O’Neill argued it was ‘Orwellian’, comparing it to Animal Farm, George Orwell’s satire of
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