A transgender woman and a makeup artist, Tara Hudson, 26, has been sent to a men’s prison in a move her mother says will endanger and humiliate her.
Tara has lived as a woman all her adult life and has gone through six years of gender reconstruction surgery.
Magistrates sent Tara, who admitted to a bar assault on Boxing Day last year, to a male prison because her passport says she is still a male. Her mum, Jackie, said there’s nothing male about her and she feels the men are going to go after her. .
She says Tara’s doctor has even confirmed that she is now a woman. Tara was sentenced to 12 weeks inside the tough all-male Bristol prison.
She said: "There's nothing male about her, nobody would know the difference. She looks like a woman. She's gorgeous.
"We think it's totally outrageous. I don't think she will cope well at all. I just feel the men are going to go after her. It's going to be humiliating."
Tara was born Aaron. Jackie has now written to the court and the prison governor in a bid to overturn the decision, Bristolpost reports.
She says she just wants to get her daughter into a safe, female environment where she belongs and she will continue to fight the decision. She says her daughter still has the vestige remains of a penis, despite having 34EE breasts.
She said the hormone treatment has shrunken Tara’s manhood and she's due to have it removed at some point. Tara regularly gets abuse for her gender status and is on a hormone replacement course as well as medication for depression.
