A transgender prisoner who was born male but identifies as female sexually assaulted female inmates after being switched to a women’s prison. He was jailed for rape.
While being held on remand, Stephen Wood said he had ‘transitioned’ from male to female in order to convince the authorities to place him in a women’s prison where he proceeded to sexually assault two female inmates.
But despite changing his name and wearing wigs and women’s clothing, Prosecutor Christopher Dunn expressed doubt about the sincerity of White’s change of gender, but nonetheless referred to White by his new name, Karen White, and using a female pronoun: ”She is allegedly a transgender female. . . allegedly because there’s smatterings of evidence in this case that the defendant’s approach to transitioning has been less than committed.
“The prosecution suggest the reason for the lack of commitment towards transitioning is so the defendant can use a transgender persona to put herself in contact with vulnerable persons she can then abuse.”
The court found the defendant guilty and sentenced him to life.
