Trans woman who stalked surgeon who carried out gender reassignment procedure is being held in female prison

The trans woman who followed the surgeon who performed the gender reassignment procedure is being held in a women’s prison.

Vivienne Taylor, 28, was jailed for 14 months after pleading guilty to causing serious alarm or distress and stalking.

Earlier at Isleworth Crown Court, Taylor’s Dr. It was heard that he stalked Tina Rashid for four years and this affected her work, family and social life.

Shortly after undergoing reassignment surgery in Putney, London, in 2021, the 28-year-old actor visited Dr. He bought a cake for Rashid.

Taylor also kept dozens of photos of the senior urological surgeon on his phone and developed a ‘fixation’ on the medical professional before he was sectioned.

Transgender woman was admitted to Chelsea and Westminster hospital due to ‘complications’ and Dr. He was requested to be treated by Rashid.

Here he threatened to commit suicide if he was not treated by the surgeon.

Also Taylor’s Dr. Rashid was also heard coming to the workplace and claiming that he was under a doctor’s care.

He also sent unwarranted emails to the medical professional saying they needed to ‘come back’ and also attempted to contact him on LinkedIn.

And on one occasion, the 28-year-old actor threatened to ‘beat up’ the highly respected surgeon.

An overview of HMP Downview, the women’s prison where Vivienne Taylor is currently serving a 14-month sentence

Previously Dr. It was heard that Rashid suffered from ‘anxiety most days’ and feared for his safety amid Taylor’s obsession.

Judge Giles Curtis-Raleigh issued an ‘exceptional’ restraining order with no time limit when sentencing Taylor earlier this month.

The judge added that the 28-year-old’s crime affected ‘every aspect’ of the surgeon’s life. ‘He experienced very real fear,’ he said.

Now Conservative MP Rebecca Paul is ‘urgently investigating’ the move to place Taylor at HMP Downview, a women’s prison in Surrey.

It is understood that Taylor was kept in a special wing for inmates who were born biologically male but identified as female.

E Wing, a separate specialist unit, is the only one of its kind in the prison and is “designed to house transgender women who are assessed as being too high risk to be kept in the general women’s estate, while also being at risk from other inmates in the men’s estate.”

Prisoners in this unit remain separate from the general population, but ‘in some cases’ participate in supervised activities with the rest of the prison.

A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: ‘HMP Downview has a separate unit for transgender prisoners, isolated from the main female population.’