Dangerous trans stalker who threatened to ‘batter’ surgeon sent to women’s jail

Taylor was also handed an indefinite restraining order after sending a barrage of messages to urological surgeon Tina Rashid, including threatening to "s***" her and her partner.

Dr Rashid, who performed Taylor's gender reassignment surgery, told the court in her victim statement she had developed "anxiety most nights" following the stalking, and that she was constantly "worried about being followed".

"I have young children living with me and I also fear for their safety," she added.

The stalking campaign stretched over four years, with Taylor repeatedly turning up at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Dr Rashid's place of work, with "self-inflicted complications" and demanding to be treated by the terrified nurse.

Following her sentencing, Taylor, who was born a man but had gender reassignment surgery in 2021, had initially been sent to male-only HMP Wandsworth.

However, after merely days, the convicted stalker has now been sent to HMP Downview, a women's prison in Surrey.

Taylor is being held on the prison's E wing, which is specifically designed for biological men who identify as women.

On the wing, while the prisoners' cells are in a separate ward from that of the biological females, all inmates mix during social hours in the daytime, such as education, religious services or social visits.

This is said to represent a "clear breach" of the regulations for single-sex spaces in the Equality Act.

Rebecca Paul, Conservative MP for Reigate, where HMP Downview is situated, previously claimed the inmates were mixing "without adequate supervision".

The move has sent campaigners into uproar, with Fiona McAnena, of sex-based rights charity Sex Matters, describing it as "appalling".

"The prison service knows Taylor is a risk because it claims that prisoners on E wing, the section for men who claim to be women, are kept ­separate from women," she said.

"But E wing was put on the women's estate and not the men's estate, so trans-­identifying men can have access to women's facilities and even mix with female prisoners.

"Many women in prison have experienced male violence. Some even say prison is the only place where they feel safe from men.

"Now the women in Downview are being used as props for the affirmation of men ­living out a fetishistic fantasy of womanhood. If this man is being kept away from the women for their safety, he should not be at Downview at all."

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has previously insisted that the Supreme Court ruling "must be implemented in full and at all levels".

Claire Coutinho, Shadow Minister for Equalities, said: "Under no ­circumstances should a male be placed in a women’s prison. Bridget Phillipson (Minister for Women and Equalities) needs to stop her dithering and delay and finally publish the new EHRC guidance to ensure vulnerable women are properly protected."

Former Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood was said to be planning to move inmates from the E wing out of the women's prison – these were scrapped after she left the role to become Home Secretary in September.

David Lammy, replacing her, is a vocal supporter of trans rights, and in 2021 he said that "there are some dinosaurs on the right" who want to "hoard rights" for trans individuals.

The Ministry of Justice revealed Taylor had been moved to HMP Downview's E wing, with a spokesman adding: "There is a separate unit for transgender prisoners at HMP Downview isolated from the main female population."

The spokesman also confirmed inmates on E wing "in some circumstances may join supervised activities" with other prisoners.

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