Northern Territory Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro has declared a ban on transgender women being housed in the territory's female prisons.

Men who have transitioned to being a women will no longer be placed in women's prisons in the Territory, the NT Chief Minister told The Australian.

Ms Finocchiaro - the first government leader to make such a declaration - said the NT would no longer be following the policy used in other jurisdictions that houses inmates based on gender identity.

"There should be no men in women’s prisons, full stop," Ms Fino­cchiaro said.

"I can tell you now, here in the Northern Territory there are no blokes in women’s jails and we’re not having that here, not on my watch."

The Chief Minister's move came in response to calls from Women's Forum Australia, which wrot

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