Singapore's Law and Home Affairs Minister was responding to a parliamentary question on a recent case in Scotland, where a transgender person was initially held at a women’s prison but eventually moved to a male prison.
New: You can now listen to articles.SINGAPORE: It may be better in some situations to not house an inmate with other inmates of the same registered sex due to safety considerations, said Minister of Law and Home Affairs K Shanmugam in parliament on Tuesday .
Isla Bryson, 31, made the decision to transition from a man to a woman while awaiting trial for two counts of rape committed in 2016 and 2019. “In Singapore, our primary consideration is the safety of the inmates. As a rule, inmates are housed in a male or female institution based on their registered sex, and not their self-identified gender,” he added.
In such cases, the inmate is housed alone in individual cells within the institution of their registered gender, or in a shared cell with other inmates who are in the same situation.As a rule, prison inmates are housed in a male or female institution based on their registered sex and not their self-identified gender. The primary consideration is their safety. There may be situations where it may be better not to house an inmate with other inmates of their registered sex for safety reasons.
This follows ICA’s requirements that a person’s sex change must first be verified by a local relevant medical specialist, before ICA updates the registered sex of the person in its database.Mr Murali then asked if any transgender persons in Singapore’s prisons have been assaulted and what steps have been taken to deal with that.
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