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   From: burfordTjustice@tues.uk   
      
   Outrage As Double Rapist Moves to Women’s Prison After Sex Change   
   Treatment   
      
      
   A convicted rapist who is in line for a publicly-funded sex change   
   operation has been moved to a women’s jail.   
      
   Father-of-three Martin Ponting, who has started hormone treatment, was jailed   
   for life in 1995 after attacking two girls. He was serving his sentence at the   
   high security men’s jail HM Prison Whitemoor in Cambridgeshire, eastern   
   England.   
      
   Having decided to live as a woman, Ponting, now 50 years old, has been granted   
   a gender recognition certificate by a doctor – which is necessary for an   
   acquired gender to be legally recognised.   
      
   The inmate is now on the way to being eligible for a £10,000 ($12,500) sex   
   change operation courtesy of British taxpayers. Ponting now goes by the name   
   Jessica Winfield. He changed his name at least a decade ago.   
      
   According to The Sun, Winfield is currently serving time in the women’s jail   
   HM Prison Bronzefield in Surrey and is hoping to be released this year.   
       
   One of Winfield’s victims told The Sun: “He may have changed physically   
   but his brain is still the same. To assume the identity of a woman after what   
   he did is a kick in the teeth. There are not enough words to describe him and   
   the evil he has done.    
   It is diabolical they have allowed him to have a sex change and diabolical   
   that he could be freed this year. He may have changed physically but his brain   
   is still the same. You can change somebody’s genitals but it’s not going   
   to take away the urge    
   and impulse inside them to do horrific things to children. I feel like it   
   mocks the people he offended against. It is a kick in the teeth for me and his   
   other victim.”   
      
   Transgender prisoners in the UK have been allowed to apply for publicly-funded   
   gender surgery since 1999.   
      
   Winfield’s brother Nigel, 49, said: “The best they could do is throw away   
   the key. He is a menace to the public and people need to be warned about   
   him.”   
      
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