I have no opinion or interest in this as it doesn't affect me but I am curious about one point.

By all accounts s3x offenders get a fairly rough time of it in Jail - boohoo I hear you say.

I suspect many of the women in Cornton Vale may be a little tough and scary.

What odds of an anatomically intact rapist surviving a night in said establishment without receiving an anesthetic free gender re-assignment?

I know (quite well in some cases) some law abiding women that reach for the garden shears if they are called sweetheart.

Just seems an unlikely scenario to raise.