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Trans Prisoner Charged with Assault as Gender Policy Challenged

4/24/2026

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Alexandra Stewart, one of two trans women in Scotland’s prison estate, has been charged with sexually assaulting a fellow inmate at HMP Greenock.
Police Scotland will submit a report on the incident to the procurator fiscal.
For Women Scotland is challenging the prison service’s policy in Court of Session after a Court ruling defined “woman” as biological sex.
She is serving a life sentence for the 2013 murder of John Weir.

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Story summary

Alexandra Stewart, one of two trans women in Scotland’s prison estate, has been charged with sexually assaulting a fellow inmate at HMP Greenock.
Police Scotland will submit a report on the incident to the procurator fiscal.
For Women Scotland is challenging the prison service’s policy in Court of Session after a Court ruling defined “woman” as biological sex.
She is serving a life sentence for the 2013 murder of John Weir.