Transgender woman sent to a male prison gets petitions to be sent to a female prison

Tara Hudson has been living as a woman for six
years, but back in October she was sent to a
men’s prison over an assault charge. The 26-year-
old transgender woman was jailed for 12 weeks
after she was convicted of headbutting a bar
manager last year. During her first week in the
prison Hudson was faced with endless abuse
from other prisoners.
Tara told Metro.co.uk:
“When I walked into the prison, it was like a
cat with five legs had entered the building.”
“They would call me ‘chick with a d***,’
‘trannie,’ ‘shim’ (she/him) or ‘hybrid’ and
shout that the ‘Lady Boys of Bangkok’ were
in town. I even heard one say, ‘It should be
shot.'”

Hudson said she was scared for her life around
the other prisoners. According to Metro, she was
forced to flash the inmates because she was
scared of getting raped.
“Most of them were really excited. Everyone
thought I was an ordinary woman and they
hadn’t seen one in a long time. It was all
very sexual – they were very sexually
excited.”
Luckily for her, a petition was started to have her
moved to a female prison. It gathered
over 140,000 signatures, according to the BBC.
After a week, Hudson was moved to a women’s
prison.
Two transgender women in England recently
hanged themselves over the fear of male
prisons. Vikki Thompson, 21, was found dead in
HMP Leeds after saying she would commit
suicide if she was sent there, and 38-year-old
Joanne Latham hanged herself at HMP Woodhill