Transgender women have been banned from female jails following a landmark court judgement in Scotland today. In a resounding victory for For Women Scotland (FWS), Edinburgh judges quashed the SNP policy that permitted biological male offenders to share prisons with women. Deeming the legislation unlawful, judges "comprehensively rejected" the nationalist party's bid to house male prisoners, who identify themselves as women, in jails for female convicts. Current guidance allows perpetrators to be