Jailed as a man. Released as a woman

[Keroppi]

Jailed as a man. Released as a woman: Robert Hilton becomes Rebecca Hilton in prison

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/jailed-as-a-man-released-as-a-woman-robert-hilton-becomes-rebecca-hilton-in-prison-8496049.html

After 21 years behind bars, Rebecca Hilton finds herself not only in a changed world, but a changed body

Rebecca Hilton was Robert Hilton when she was sentenced to life in prison in 1992 for murder. It was the year John Major came to power, and Shakespears Sister and Erasure ruled the charts. Mobile phones were the size of house bricks and the internet was little more than a whisper.

It's rare for a prisoner who's served a life sentence to speak about their experience inside. But Rebecca has an almost unique perspective on life at Her Majesty's pleasure, having been imprisoned in both men's and women's jails during a 21-year stretch in which she had gender reassignment surgery.

Two weeks after her release, Rebecca invited The Independent to her new room at a hostel for ex-lifers in Maidstone, Kent.

Until her operation in 2011, when she was transferred to the female estate overnight, Hilton spent her years in male prisons, despite considering herself to be a woman. Because different prisons have different rules and prisoners move about so much, Rebecca's experiences varied vastly even within different men's prisons.

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[~RoadToTrista~]

I would have disagreed about the government starting her on hormones, but bleh. The thought of them refusing to makes me cringe.