It sounds ridiculous – it is ridiculous – but the gender identity and gender reassignment protocols in Scottish prisons, developed with the Scottish Trans Alliance and pressure group Stonewall, affords extensive privileges to transgender inmates.
She turned up at Cornton Vale prison in a burst of pink: pink jacket, pink leggings, and a pink suitcase on wheels. Surely there could not ever have been a more controversial arrival at the Scottish women’s jail.
Many readers will probably be aware, given the extensive coverage, that before this remarkable transformation, Isla Bryson was none other than muscular, shaven-headed, tattooed double rapist Adam Graham.
Let me, though, briefly recap the farce which culminated in the 31-year-old being committed to this facility, albeit temporarily.
It was, just to be clear, predatory Adam Graham who attacked two women in 2016 and 2019. But by the time the rapist appeared in the dock at the High Court in Glasgow this week she had morphed, like a contestant on the classic TV show Stars In Their Eyes, into Isla Bryson.
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