Nearly 250 people incarcerated in California prisons — the vast majority of whom are transgender women — are waiting for their chance to transfer out of a men’s institution. The longer it takes, the greater the odds that they could be raped, beaten or killed.
One major thing wrong with it is that it frames the likelihood of being raped, beaten or killed as something to “transfer out of” as opposed to something to stop altogether. I daresay men who aren’t transgender women also don’t want to be raped, beaten, or killed.
But of course the more obvious thing wrong with it is the hidden assumption that men who “identify as” women get to transfer out of men’s prison and into women’s prison, where they can be the ones posing the threat. The even more hidden assumption is that women get no say in any of this because they just don’t matter.
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The longer it takes, the lower the odds that a woman could be raped, beaten or killed by them.
“… the vast majority of whom are transgender women”? Who are the rest? Where are they expecting to go? I can’t read the article.
I see that the article is something about a new transgender law, so perhaps the others are trans-identified women who “changed their mind” or something?
@Sackbut;
I’m assuming the rest are waiting to transfer to juvenile detention, mental institutions, hospice, or the like. I’m ignoring the possibility that they’re furries going to the zoo.
lol
Sackbut:
I assume the others are ‘non-binary’:
Which means, of course, that men no longer even have to pretend to be women to be housed in women’s prisons.
And how many of the above are already in the lowest rank of the prison hierarchy (kiddie diddlers, rapists, etc) before declaring “trans” status? Over half?
I suspect that a non-trivial portion of those 250 trans women discovered they were trans about five minutes after they got to prison and discovered they were being targeted by the rapists there. And I can’t fully blame them for that–US prisons are horribly run hellholes, especially for men perceived as vulnerable by their more predatory peers.
But the solution is not, and cannot be, to make women more vulnerable. Prison reform will take a long time; a faster, better solution, for the moment, would be to create a facility for transwomen specifically, where they can be given some degree of safety, without making women more vulnerable. Given their relatively small numbers, a single facility would suffice even in the largest states; lower population states would probably need to share.
Of course, that wouldn’t affirm the poor dears, so it’s probably a non-starter.
If they’re so worried about the trans people (and we all know this is about notwomen), put them all together in a single prison. That way they won’t be endangered by the old fashioned vanilla men and won’t be a threat to old fashioned vanilla women.
So yeah, plenty of men who don’t claim to be women are raped in male prisons. Where are the calls to “transfer them out” of that situation? Oh, right, it’s only the men in dresses that get that concern.
It doesn’t take a genius to see that generates a huge motivation for men in prisons to declare themselves “women”.
And, of course, any actual women put at risk by all this pearl-clutching are of no matter at all.