Brooklyn said: “There’s nothing male about her, nobody would know the difference.
“She looks like a woman. I just feel the men are going to go after her.”
According to Metro UK, Hudson’s mother said she thought her daughter would be given an electronic tag and made to undergo an alcohol awareness course when she pleaded guilty to the 2014 assault.
A spokesperson from the Prison Service said: “It is longstanding policy to place offenders according to their legally recognised gender.
“There are strict rules in place to ensure transsexual prisoners are managed safely and in accordance with the law.”
Amnesty International said trans women placed in prison with men faced a ‘heightened risk of physical and sexual abuse’.
Amnesty’s Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Advisor, Leda Avgousti, said “We know that trans women placed in prisons with male inmates are put at a heightened risk of physical and sexual abuse and that’s a real concern.
‘Trans inmates must absolutely not be placed with detainees where violence is a high probability.’
There is now a Change.org petition to allow Hudson to serve her sentence at a female prison.
Below are Hudson’s photos. (Click on any image to enlarge).
