Transgender Behind Prison Walls

Jane Baker Sarah

Description

The first book on transgender in a prison setting looks at the entire HM Prison Service regime for such people. Ranging from hard information about rules and regulations, the transition process and how to access it to practical suggestions about clothing, wigs and hairpieces, make-up and coming out, the book also deals with such matters as change of name, gender identity clinics, hormones, medication and use of prison showers and toilets.

Sujets

• Sociologie, société et politique
• Reino Unido
• United Kingdom
• Offenders
• Great Britain
• Royaume-Uni

Informations

• Publié par: Waterside Press
• Date de parution: 20 mars 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781910979310
• Langue: English

Extrait

Transgender Behind Prison Walls
Sarah Jane Baker
Foreword Pam Stockwell
Copyright and publication details
Transgender Behind Prison Walls
Sarah Jane Baker
ISBN 978-1-909976-45-0 (Paperback)
ISBN 978-1-910979-31-0 (Epub ebook)
ISBN 978-1-910979-32-7 (Adobe ebook)
Copyright © 2017 This work is the copyright of Sarah Jane Baker. All intellectual property and associated rights are hereby asserted and reserved by the author in full compliance with UK, European and international law. No part of this book may be copied, reproduced, stored in any retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, including in hard copy or via the internet, without the prior written permission of the publishers to whom all such rights have been assigned worldwide.
Cover design © 2017 Waterside Press.
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Published 2017 by
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Table of Contents
Copyright and publication details ii
Acknowledgements vi
About the author vii
Abbreviations ix
The author of the Foreword x
Foreword xi
Dedication xv
1 Introduction 17
2 What Is Transgender? 23
3 Reception 25
4 Induction 29
5 Cell-sharing 31
6 Clothing for Trans-women 33
7 Clothing Tips 35
8 Footwear Tips 41
9 Wigs and Hairpieces 43
10 Make-up 45
11 Coming Out 49
12 Change of Name and Who to Inform 51
13 Transition Pathway 53
14 Gender Identity Appointments 55
15 Hormones 57
16 Applying for a Gender Recognition Certificate 61
17 Toilet Use 63
18 Media Attention and Trans Politics 65
19 Real Life Experiences Behind Bars 79
20 Postscript 89
Appendix 1: HM Prison Service Instruction 17/2016 96
Appendix 2: Gender Identity Clinics in England 117
Appendix 3: Suppliers to Trans Prisoners 119
Appendix 4: Magazines and Books 121
Appendix 5: Transgender Support Groups 122
Appendix 6: List of Specialists in the Field of Gender Dysphoria 126
Appendix 7: Two Other Key Addresses 147
Index 148
To live the truth is hard
To live a lie is tragic.
Anon
To thine own self be true.
William Shakespeare
As a snake can shed its skin,
We, too, can shed our past,
Time and time again.
Dalai Lama
The truth must dazzle gradually
Or every man be blind.
Emily Dickinson
Acknowledgements
To Pam Stockwell, my friend, mentor, teacher and personal secretary. Why you have put up with me for so long still amazes me.
Thanks to: Jenine Abbott, Lord Berkeley, Mickey (C M) Brown, Simone Bunty, Deanne Cummings, Drew Ashlyn Cunningham, Luke Davis, Timmy ‘Time’ Douglass, Sarah Franken, Victoria Hathaway, Anonhi Hegarty, Stephanie Jarvis, Caitlyn Jenner, Paris Lees, Jason Lightoller, Chelsea Manning, Kellie Maloney, David Marney, Donna Newbury, Mitzi Romiti and Piawacket, Rebecca Root, Nicola Ann Rose, Hoss and Loretta Sobhanieh, Abby Stein, Kay West (President of the Beaumont Society), Suzanne White and Andy Wixen.
Thanks also to: Nurse Jayden, Dr Celia Taylor, James Watson, Ian Pressland and Hilary Sturt, Tracey, Jay and Jack Baker, the Wachowski sisters, Deena Kaye Rose, Colin, June Louise, Ajay, Clarissa, Sara, Charmaine and Natasha Johnson, Michaela Powney, Sue-Anne and Michael, Kim Leggett, Stacy Novak, Vicky Lee, Sue Sheppard, Leona Lovett, Steven Lowe, Terry Reed of the Gender research and Education Society (GIRES), HM Prison Lewes Integrated Drug Treatment Staff (IDTS) Jackie and Sarah, Prison Reform Trust, Howard League for Penal Reform, Inside Time and Converse .
Special thanks to their Royal Highnesses Princes William and Harry, and the thousands of members of our armed forces who have openly supported those Lesbian, Gay, Transgender, Bisexual and Queer (LGBTQ) members who also serve and protect us.
Finally, thank you to Raphael Rowe from BBC Panorama , LBC Radio, Kerry and William, Mia Harris of the Centre for Criminology at the University of Oxford, Professor David Wilson of Birmingham City University and Professor Alison Liebling of the Cambridge Institute of Criminology.
About the author
Sarah Jane Baker is a transgender woman serving a life sentence in a men’s prison. She was formerly known as Alan Baker before her transition in 2011. She has spent over 25 years in prison (despite a tariff of nine years), having received a discretionary life sentence for the attempted murder of another prisoner. She has spent time in some 30 prisons, as well as youth custody centres when younger and has experienced maximum security segregation on many occasions. Her training includes bricklaying, painting and decorating, industrial laundry, engineering, industrial cleaning, photography, film-making and welding and she has worked as a shepherd at HM Prison North Sea Camp and a diesel fitter at HM Prison Leyhill.
Sarah is an award-winning poet and composer, an accomplished violinist and guitarist, and a consultant to the London Chamber Orchestra. She has played in over 500 services in prison chapels, performed for the Cheltenham Festival and in Gloucester Cathedral, and appeared on BBC radio. She co-wrote a play that was performed on Radio 4 in 2003. She also did a stint acting at HM Prison Leyhill Theatre.
Writing as Alan Baker she received a Koestler Trust Silver Award for the manuscript of her first book, Life Imprisonment: An Unofficial Guide (Waterside Press, 2013). Her other awards include a Koestler Silver Award for Essays and Articles, a rare Koestler Platinum Award for a recording of Paganini for Solo Violin, and one for a recording of the Bach Partita No.3 in E Major BWV 1006 and Bach Partita No.2 in D Minor BWV 1004. Many of her poems have appeared in Koestler Awards Anthologies (1997 and 1998) , Poetic Licence , Poetry Croydon Live at the internet, and numerous prison magazines. She won Financial Times poetry awards in 1997 and 1998, and has been a contributor to newspapers and magazines, including the Saturday Times Magazine , Daily Telegraph, Croydon Advertiser , national prisons newspaper Inside Time , Prison Service Journal and Probation Journal .
Sarah holds a Stonebridge Associated Colleges (SAC) Diploma in Drug and Alcohol Counselling and an SAC Certificate in Developmental Psychology. As well as corresponding with transgender prisoners throughout the world, including American State, Federal and Military prisoners, Sarah also keeps in contact with other amateur theoretical physicists at Haifa University, Israel and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA. Her wide-ranging scientific interests include T-cell immunology and electromagnetism.
She is working on her third book, Borstal to Bedlam .
Abbreviations
For the purposes of this book I will be using certain abbreviations. This is done both for my ease and that of the reader. I may not be up-to-date with some of the terminology used today outside of prisons, and any offence caused is unintentional.
CD Cross-dresser
CMTO Care and Management of Transgender Offenders
CMTP Care and Management of Transgender Prisoners
F-to-M Female-to-male transgender
GIC Gender Identity Clinic
GRC Gender Recognition Certificate
GRP Gender Recognition Panel
HRA Human Rights Act 1988
LGBTQ Lesbian, Gay, Bi-sexual, Trans and Queer
MDT Mandatory drug test
M-to-F Male-to-female transgender
NOMS National Offender Management Service 1
Post-op After operation
Pre-op Before operation
PSI Prison Service Instruction
PSO Prison Service Order
Trans Transsexual/transgender according to the context
TS Transgender
TV Transvestite
VDT Voluntary drug test
VPU Vulnerable Prisoner Unit


1 . From 1 April 2017 HM Prison and Probation Service.
The author of the Foreword
Pam Stockwell is a mother of three, grandmother of four and formerly a teacher of French. Early in the 1990s she ran into a former pupil (a ‘lovable rogue’) in trouble who needed a character reference for court. She provided one, attended with him and offered moral support. He was spared a custodial sentence and subsequently stayed out of trouble. Later it occurred to her that there must be many youngsters in a similar situation, who had not had the advantages her own children had enjoyed, and became a Voluntary Associate with an organization whose members, in those days, worked alongside probation officers. This led to her writing to and sometimes visiting ‘clients’ in various prisons.
One of these was HM Prison Full Sutton, a maximum security prison near York, where Alan Baker was serving a discretionary life sentence, but who received no visits or letters. After first writing she visited him. Originally hostile, by the end of the visit, he had decided that she had not, as he suspected, been sent to ‘spy’ on him, and agreed that she should visit him again. So began a roller-coaster friendship that has lasted over 25 years. Pam considers that Alan—now Sarah—has made her see life from a different perspective and enriched it with a special kind of love, pride, joy, anguish, hope and despair.
Foreword
Pam Stockwell
I was heartbroken. It felt like a bereavement. The young man I had come to love as a son had disappeared overnight, and been replaced by a girl who was not my daughter, but, I felt, a stranger. My feeling of loss was made worse by the fact that I was unable to talk about it with my husband, who is ad