A violent inmate who was put into a women’s jail after having gender reassignment surgery was later returned to an all-male prison after having a second sex change.

Describing him as the UK’s happiest prisoner, one of his fellow jailbirds revealed that he got married while in the female facility.

Both sex changes took place on the NHS at a cost of around £30,000, however he has been left with a micro-penis.

The two ex-prisoners from Foston Hall Women’s Prison were shocked (Picture: Rex)

Speaking exclusively to metro.co.uk two fellow inmates at Foston Hall – an all female facility – said the situation was an open secret that had angered other jailbirds.




One of them said: ‘He had been in jail for so long everyone knew him and he was part of the furniture. We treated him like a woman, but you would not mess with him.

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‘In prison you learn fast not to get involved in other people’s business, but used to joke he must have been the happiest prisoner in England being surrounded with women every day instead of being in a horrible man’s jail.

‘He had years to get a woman. He found a Mrs, they worked together and got married inside.’

He spent nearly 10 years in the female jail before starting the transition back to being a man.

Nicola Williams is demanding transgender prisoners are kept out of women’s jails (Picture: ITV)

He was given hormone treatments and reintroduced to the male population in spring this year.

Another former Foston Hall inmate said: ‘Women’s jails should be for be just for women. It just did not seem right but there was nothing any of us could do to change the situation.

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‘Now knowing he is a geezer again makes me wonder if it was a long term plan. I could not get a mole removed when I was inside so how he convinced them to give him two sex changes God only knows.’

Penal reformer Nicola Williams, from Fair Play for Women, believes trans inmates should not be allowed into female jails.

She said: ‘This is another case that is very worrying. And this issue is we do not know how many male body transgenders are in female prisons.

Karen White admitted abusing fellow inmates at HMP New Hall, Wakefield (Picture: Facebook)

‘They have grown up as men so they deal with situations very differently than women, it is an issue of control.

‘Males have a different way of dealing, men can be much more controlling, in prison, and women prisoners are at a natural disadvantage if it comes to a physical confrontation.

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Fair Play For Women have petitioned the government about women’s rights in prisons concerning the transgender population.

Ms Williams added: ‘The UK government doesn’t even know accurate figures for how many transgender prisoners they already have in prisons. The current estimate of 125 is self-reported by prisoners and prison governors.

‘They do not know the criminal profiles of these trans-identified prisoners so how can they possibly assess the risk of any policy change in this area.’



A spokesman for the Prison Service said: ‘We are unable to advise on the private matters of individual prisoners.’

The Ministry of Justice has previously said there were ‘strict safeguards’ to prevent abuse of the way transgender prisoners are managed and attempts to undermine the system were rare.

More than 100 prisoners have had gender reassignment since 1999 when John Pilley became Jane Anne.

It was later revealed that they also wanted to return to being a man again.

Last month Karen White, who was born male but identifies as a woman, confessed to two counts of sexual touching at New Hall Prison, Wakefield, an all-female jail. She has since been moved to a male prison.

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