And indeed, the only research into long-term outcomes for post-operative transsexuals, in Sweden, concluded that transwomen ‘retained a male pattern regarding criminality’. One of the women locked up with Harks has lodged a complaint with the CSC, alleging that Harks sexually harassed her. Any inmate who complained about Harks was branded transphobic, she says, so most stayed silent rather than risk loss of privileges and delayed parole. The woman, who is indigenous, suffered abuse in childhood and says that Harks’s behaviour gave her flashbacks. ‘The CSC was really dismissive,’ says Halley,
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