A transvestite drug dealer who was due to start hornmone treatment for a sex change has been spared jail, on account of the fact it would prevent him being able to go through with a sex change. He was due to serve 11 months in a men's jail for drug offences, but that will now be a suspended sentence as he is undergoing gender reassignment. Instead there will be a six month curfew.
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Ok, the question is: should he have been let off jail?
On the one hand, the person has a chance to rebuild their life.
On the other hand, they committed a crime.
My opinion is that if it could be shown from the psychiatric evalution that the person is unlikely to engage in criminal behaviour afterwards, then its probably the right decision. Given it is a suspended sentence, any further crime would result in the treatment being halted and them winding up in jail.
What do you think?