DARWIN, Northern Territory (LifeSiteNews) — Australia’s Northern Territory has banned gender-confused men from women’s prisons, after women were assaulted by men while being incarcerated.
On October 13, Northern Territory Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro announced new policies to keep men claiming to be women out of female prisons, becoming the first territory in Australia to protect women from predatory males in jails.
“There should be no men in women’s prisons, full stop,” Finocchiaro told The Australian. “I can tell you now, here in the Northern Territory there are no blokes in women’s jails and we’re not having that here, not on my watch.”
“If you’re born a bloke, you go into a men’s prison. At the end of the day, this is really about women’s safety. It’s about women’s dignity,” she continued.
The announcement came just a few days after a female inmate revealed that she was sexually assaulted by a man pretending to be a woman while being incarcerated at an Australian prison.
Finocchiaro condemned Australia’s current polices for failing to protect women, saying, “women need to be protected, both in and outside of jail. This is not rocket science, and some people have forgotten why they’re there, and some people have made life far more complicated than it needs to be.”
“This is about people’s fundamental right to be safe. And it doesn’t need to be more complicated than that,” she continued, condemning the Labour government’s decision to prioritize “woke” ideology over women’s safety.
“It’s just absurd to think that people would be putting men equipped with male genitalia in women’s prisons,” Finocchiaro declared.
Additionally, in September, a convicted male child pedophile was placed in a female prison after claiming he was “transgender.” These two cases sparked outrage across the country as advocates called for further protections for women.
Following these two cases, the Women’s Forum Australia appealed to state premiers and territory leaders as well as Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to protect female inmates from dangerous men pretending to be female.
Women’s Forum Australia CEO Rachael Wong celebrated Finocchiaro’s new policy in a post on X, writing, “NT Chief Minister @LiaFinocchiaro showing the rest of Australia’s leaders how it’s done!”
Wong condemned Australia mainstream prison policy for perpetuating “a national pattern of state-sanctioned injustice and abuse, whereby male offenders are being permitted to enter women’s prisons under the guise of gender identity.”
