The First Minister has insisted transwomen do not have an automatic right to go to women’s jails.
It comes as a review is launched into a rapist who was initially sent to a female prison, after commiting crimes as a man then identifying as a woman.
The case of the prisoner now using the name Isla Bryson has been politically controversial.
Then it emerged another violent criminal who now identifies as Tiffany Scott had a move to a women’s prison blocked too.
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