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A transgender prisoner locked up with some of Britain’s most evil men is begging pals for a £25,000 gender reassignment – so she can return to a women’s jail.

Karen White, who was previously known as David Thompson, was moved to notorious HMP Wakefield after sexually assaulting two female inmates at nearby New Hall.

White had been sent to the women’s jail while being held for attacking a male neighbour, aged 66, with a steak knife.

Now the 52-year-old is pleading with pals to fund her reassignment surgery, saying: “I’m longing for the day the system sends me – more like forced to send me – to a female prison again.

“But the only way I will achieve this is if I become a woman. Then the system will have no option but to send me to a female estate.”

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In letters sent from her cell on Wakefield’s C Wing, White wrote: “If I was to wait for the operation on the NHS I would be waiting for years.

“With the NHS waiting lists I could be touching 60 before I had the operation and I don’t think they would perform [it], partly because it is dangerous.

“But I long for that day, when I can say my life is complete. If I was to have said I was transgender in the 60s, no-one would have known what I was on about.”

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White – who is still legally a man – was jailed for life in October for rape, sexual assault and wounding.

The rape of two women, one in 2003 and one in 2016, had come to light after her arrest over the knife attack.

On remand, she sexually assaulted two New Hall inmates.

The court heard she had used her “female persona” to get access to vulnerable victims.

Judge Christopher Batty called her a “highly manipulative predator”.

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White also has previous convictions for sexual offences involving children.

After she admitted the assaults at New Hall, officials transferred her to Wakefield, a Category A jail where she is serving time alongside Soham monster Ian Huntley, child killer Stuart Hazell and murderer Robert Maudsley, who killed three men while behind bars.

White wrote in her letters: “Being in this place doesn’t promote positivity.

“The only way I’m going to get out here is if I was to have the operation soon (private) then the system would have to move me to a female prison.”

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She also told of coming out as transgender in 2011, buying her first women’s clothes, make-up and a wig.

She wrote: “I remember feeling as if I was on Cloud 9, I felt brilliant and nothing could [touch] me, I looked good.

“But now it’s the complete opposite. I don’t feel good, due to my surroundings and being forced to dress as a man.”

And she told how she tries to dress as a woman but is mocked by other prisoners, saying she was called a “freak” and a “weirdo”.

White added: “If I had make-up and a better wig I would feel more comfortable. I was told why don’t I dress properly and take my wig off and blend in.”

White, who was told at Leeds Crown Court she must serve a minimum of nine and a half years, told a friend: “Back to when I was on the outside I enjoyed my life, I loved socialising in the gay bars, in Leeds, Manchester, Blackpool.

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“Life was good and I guess life will be like that again, hopefully I will be a full woman by then. Make-up I will get from Avon. I’m in need of foundation, powder, lipstick, eyeliner. I’ve seen a wig I like that costs £52. It’s not real hair but it looks real. I wash it like real hair.”

Claiming she is denied padded bras because of the security risk, she said: “What they don’t know or even care is that taking my bras, they have taken away a big part of my identity.”

She added: “The cost of the operation will be £25,000. This is not [cheap] but I would be forever in your debt. I would be so pleased if you could help me be the real me.”

The Ministry of Justice declined to comment on White’s claims.