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10/27/2015 Fears for transgender woman Tara Hudson sent to allmale Bristol prison | Metro News

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Harry Readhead for Metro.co.ukTuesday 27 Oct 2015 9:53 am2.6k

Tara Hudson will serve her sentence alongside 600 adult men (Picture:SWNS)

The mother of a transgender woman fears for the safety of her ‘gorgeous’ daughter after she was sent to an allmale prison.

Makeup artist Tara Hudson, 26, was born Aaron, but has lived as a female all of her adult life and undergone six years of gender reconstructionsurgery.

She was jailed for 12 weeks after admitting assault at a bar last Christmas, and magistrates ruled she should serve her sentence at a CategoryB maleprison because her passport still classifies her as male.

Her mother, Jackie Brooklyn, called the magistrates’ decision ‘outrageous’ and fears for the safety of her ‘gorgeous’ daughter.

‘There’s nothing male about her, nobody would know the difference,’ she said.

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Tara was jailed for 12 weeks (Picture: SWNS)

‘She looks like a woman. I just feel the men are going to go after her.’

Ms Brooklyn said she thought her daughter would be given an electronic tag and made to undergo an alcohol awareness course when she pleadedguilty to the 2014 assault.

She wasn’t expecting that Tara would have to serve her time at HMP Bristol, where 600 men are incarcerated.

Only yesterday, a prison watchdog said HMP Bristol had an ‘unsafe if not dangerous’ atmosphere and ‘violence, confrontation and tension’ stemmingfrom drug problems in the prison.

‘It is longstanding policy to place offenders according to their legally recognised gender,’ said a spokesperson from the Prison Service.

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Jackie Brooklyn fears for her daughter’s safety (Picture: SWNS)

‘There are strict rules in place to ensure transsexual prisoners are managed safely and in accordance with the law.’

Amnesty International said trans women placed in prison with men faced a ‘heightened risk of physical and sexual abuse’.

‘We know that trans women placed in prisons with male inmates are put at a heightened risk of physical and sexual abuse and that’s a real concern,’said Leda Avgousti, Amnesty’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Advisor.

‘Trans inmates must absolutely not be placed with detainees where violence is a high probability.’

There is now a Change.org petition to allow Tara to serve her sentence at a female prison.

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