Nearly 300 inmates have requested transfers since the new prison legislation on housing transgender convicts took effect. Most want to be housed in women s facilities.

Last September, Gavin Newsom, California s Democratic governor, signed a new law allowing transgender inmates to be placed in prisons based on their new gender identity, in contrast to earlier rules on housing that was in line with the inmates biological sex. The new legislation took effect on 1 January, and its impact is already palpable.

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Just over 1 per cent of California s prison population – or 1,129 inmates – have identified as nonbinary, intersex or transgender, according to Los Angeles Times. So far, the prison system has transferred four inmates to the Chowchilla women s prison, approved 21 gender-based housing requests and denied none. Out of the 261 requests, all but six asked to be housed at a women s facility.

The Californian practice is not unprecedented in Europe, either.

Alejandro Gentile is doing time in the women s section of Limerick Prison; the 18-year-old was originally born a man, but now identifies as a woman. He was placed in a prison of his choice, as Ireland s 2015 Gender Recognition Act allows individuals to be legally treated as members of the opposite biological sex on the basis of self-identification.

His placement poses grave risks, given the man s criminal history. Alejandro, who is now called Barbie Kardashian, was imprisoned for threatening to kill two people and sexually assaulting women multiple times. In addition, although he identifies as a woman, he has not undergone reassignment surgery and still has male genitalia.

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