Men are in women’s prisons in Australia
Australian prisons are managed at a state level. Each state decides whether to keep records of inmate sex or gender, and often transgender prisoners are housed on a case-by-case basis.
Male prisoners do not need to have undergone surgery to be eligible for transfer to a female prison. Some men claim to be women so they can go to a women’s prison.
A prisoner’s location is considered ‘private information’ and the public do not have the right to know the location of individual males.
Victoria
Freedom of Information requests have confirmed that Victoria do not keep records of transgender prisoners.
Lisa Jones, Attempted Sexual Assault, VIC
It has been confirmed that Lisa Jones, a man who attempted to rape a woman in broad daylight and who has previous convictions overseas for pedophilia, is being housed in the Dame Phyllis Frost Women’s Prison in Victoria. (August 2022)
Queensland
Fair Go For Women Queensland requested information about prisoner under Right To Information legislation. They say:
Males who identify as transgender were housed in Qld prison facilities at far higher rates from 2013-3019 than females who id as transgender.
Fair go For Women Queensland
Offender statistics
Trans women exhibit male patterns of violence and criminal behaviour. Written evidence submitted by Professor Rosa Freedman, Professor Kathleen Stock and Professor Alice Sullivan [GRA2021] Evidence and Data on Trans Women’s Offending Rates
Clare B Dimyon is a british engineer and LGB rights campaigner. She has undertaken significant work to crunch stats publicly available worldwide.
Tracking Transgender Crime
Systematic tracking the crimes of transgender males has not started yet in Australia. There are PLENTY of examples internationally. Many of these male offenders will end up in women-only prisons.
- UK – Documenting crimes committed by transgender individuals in the UK – https://transcrimeuk.com/
- International
- Oceania
Trans Men / Women in Men’s Prisons
April 2022 – NZ Herald published an article about a female who was kept in a men’s prison for 3 weeks due to her transgender identity.
“It asked if I prefer to be searched by female or male officers, if I prefer to be held in a female or a male facility, so I said female officers, female facility.”
NZ Herald
Avoiding prison time
Unnamed male, alleged incest perpetrator, ACT
- Male, 27
- Abused 2 siblings, (5 and 12) over a 7 year period. “The court heard it is alleged the girls were choked, and one of them had her head held under water, to ensure they didn’t tell anyone about the offences.”
- 27-year-old pleads not guilty in ACT Magistrates Court to incest, child sex offences against siblings
Chloe Jessica Earle, Brisbane
- Released after committing extortion while on bail
“I can’t ignore the fact that as a transgender person with male genitalia if you went to a male jail, your safety would be at risk,” Brisbane District Court Judge Paul Smith said at sentencing. “There is no guarantee if you were sent to a female jail. In fact, it may be the reverse.”
Criminality and Paraphilia in Australia
Clive Simpson delves into the link between paraphilia and criminality. The case of Reginald Arthurell is from Australia.
