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<p>We have strengthened our policy so that no transgender woman convicted of either
a sexual or violent offence, or who retains male genitalia, can be held in the general
women’s estate, other than in truly exceptional circumstances, which must be signed
off by a minister.</p><p>A total of 100 transgender prisoners had a sexual offence
as a principal offence and were housed in prison establishments across England and
Wales on 31 March 2023.</p><p> </p><p>If a question is posed for information and the
total figure amounts to five people or fewer, the MoJ must consider whether this would
be likely to lead to the identification of individuals and whether disclosure of this
information would be in breach of our statutory obligations under the UK General Data
Protection Regulation and/or the Data Protection Act 2018. We believe that the release
of some of this information would be likely to lead to identification of the individuals
concerned.</p><p> </p><p>For this reason, it is not possible to provide a split by
legal gender (i.e., counts and percentages by legal gender male or legal gender female)
or to provide a split by geography (i.e., counts and percentages in England and Wales).</p><p>
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