Oral question AQO 1603/22-27

Oral question by Mr Trevor Clarke on 13 February 2025.

MLA: Mr Trevor Clarke
Party at the time: Democratic Unionist Party
Date: 13 February 2025
Type: Oral question
Assembly reference: AQO 1603/22-27
Department: Department of Justice
Business: To the Minister of Justice
Assembly identifier: Document 428077

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Text

To ask the Minister of Justice to outline the number of transgender prisoners housed in Northern Ireland.

17 words. Text as published by the Northern Ireland Assembly.

Follow-ups by the same MLA in the Chamber

These were assessed together with this record:

24 February 2025 – I thank the Minister for that answer. Minister, given that there have been lots of conversations about transgender…

Assessment

Not qualifying

Jev’s structured answers met the documented threshold for “not qualifying”.

Overall probability that the activity is being used to promote, exploit or escalate an identity-based controversy: 0.68 (qualifying needs at least 0.70; at or below 0.30 is not qualifying).
None of the five culture-war criteria was met (each was below 0.60).
Assessed as legitimate policy scrutiny (0.68).
No identity-based framing was identified (0.76).
Subject area: Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues.
None of the culture-war criteria came close to being met, so the subject matter alone does not make it qualify.

This is an AI-generated assessment of the text, made against published criteria. It is not a finding of fact about the MLA or their intentions. The Assembly record itself is the fact.

Jev’s structured answers

Probability that each statement is true of this text (0 = no, 1 = yes). A criterion counts as met at 0.60 or above.
Question	Probability	Met?
Identity framing	0.14	No
Sectarian or communal antagonism	0.04	No
Cultural grievance politics	0.03	No
Dog-whistle messaging	0.14	No
Controversy escalation	0.17	No
Legitimate policy scrutiny	0.68	Yes
Overall judgement	0.68	Between thresholds

Context and attribution (stance)
Option	Probability
No identity-based framing (chosen)	0.76
Reports or questions it	0.07
Criticises or condemns it	0.00
Adopts it	0.17

Subject area (top five)
Subject	Probability
Gender, sexuality, abortion and related social issues	0.96
Sexism, misogyny, ageism and other equality groups	0.02
Another identity-related subject	0.02
No identity-related subject	0.00
Flags, emblems, symbols, names and memorials	0.00

Assessed 21 October 2026 at 08:27 UTC by jev-1.13.0 (requested as typesafe/jev) under rubric 2026.10-r9, methodology 1.9.

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