LONG BEFORE she was sent to prison, "A.L." knew she was transgender. As a child, she "wasn't like other boys" and liked to dress up in girls' clothes. Yet when she first confided in warders, they suggested she move to a wing with sex offenders. In a study of transgender inmates published in 2017 by G4S, a firm which runs prisons, she said she was refused a place in a women's jail. "I was told that the women prisons would be too interested in 'what I've got downstairs'," she said.
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