RE: Transgender and prison?
March 31, 2019 at 4:11 am
(This post was last modified: March 31, 2019 at 4:14 am by I_am_not_mafia.)
(March 30, 2019 at 11:26 pm)ignoramus Wrote: I s'pose this is no different from gays having their way with non gays with either sex.
No it is very different.
If you are a gay man in a male prison then there are many other gay men to choose.
If you are a post-operative woman thrown into a male prison then you are the only woman they have access to.
This means that the trans-woman has to spend her entire prison sentence in solitary confinement for her own safety. This then becomes cruel and unusual punishment for being transgendered.
Luckily most countries will now put the trans-woman in a female prison, but it can still happen that they get thrown into a male prison even in countries that don't normally do this, especially if pre-op but otherwise have the body of a woman. And it has only relatively recently changed in many countries that they won't consider which prison to throw you into based on the sex you were assigned to at birth.
The reverse is also a problem with throwing a trans-man into a female prison.
It's also worth pointing out that because trans people are some of the most marginalised in the population, they are more likely to be forced into illegal work just to survive. So it's not a simple matter of thinking that they shouldn't have done the crime.
