Originally a comment by maddog on The Basil question.
The punishment for a crime should never be rape.
That’s our point, numbskull.
It’s no part of a woman prisoner’s punishment to be terrorized by having to share their space with male prisoners. The women are subjected to ogling, leering, threats, voyeurism, touching, groping, and, yes, rape, when men are housed with women in prison.
Why does your concern for prisoner safety only run one way? Grab the smelling salts and the fainting couch over the prospect that men might sexually assault male transgender prisoners, but you become blind and your head becomes empty when it comes to the risks to women prisoners of putting men into the women’s prison. Your solution is simply to transfer the risk to women prisoners because, what? Women? Pfffft! What are they?
Besides, your transperbole is false. Keeping male prisoners who claim to be transgender in the men’s prison does not inevitably subject them to violence. Male prisoners can be segregated from one another for safety. The men’s prison could create a segregated unit for transgender prisoners.
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