British Justice Minister David Wolfson said female inmates who refer to transgender inmates by the wrong pronoun could face extra prison time. Wolfson said that those who make an innocent mistake won’t be punished but those whom guards believe deliberately refer to a trans woman as he/him could be punished under rules barring “threatening, abusive or insulting words or behavior.”
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