🚨🚨🚨 BREAKING: A violent male offender has been transferred to a NSW women’s prison – despite repeated assurances from the Minns @NSWLabor Government that men would not be housed in women’s prisons. ‘Women’s Forum Australia boss Rachael Wong said the Minns Government has “repeatedly assured the public that men would not be housed in women’s prisons – including the Premier himself as recently as May”. “Those assurances have now been exposed as false,” she said. “This is an appalling betrayal of women in custody. “Surgery does not make a male offender female or eliminate the risk of male violence. “In South Australia, multiple female prisoners have alleged they were sexually and physically assaulted by a violent male inmate who had undergone full reassignment surgery. “Women in prison are among the most vulnerable women in NSW, many with histories of male violence, sexual abuse and trauma. Forcing them to live in intimate conditions with a violent male offender is an affront to their safety, privacy, dignity and human rights.”’ ‼️ This transfer must be reversed immediately. The Government must explain how the transfer was approved despite the obvious safety concerns and why the public was repeatedly given assurances that have now proved untrue. It must also undertake an independent inquiry, publish its prison policy which disappeared from public access over a year ago, disclose how many other male offenders are being considered for transfer, and urgently introduce an unequivocal policy that women’s prisons are for female prisoners only. We should not have to wait for more women to be assaulted before this Government finally acts. 🗞️ Read more by @JakeMcCallum_ in the @dailytelegraph: dailytelegraph.com.au/news/n… 📣 Join @WomensForumAust’s campaign to #GetThemOut: womensforumaustralia.org/get… @ChrisMinnsMP @Kelliesloanemp #NSWpol