Many states are rolling back policies allowing trans people to be placed in prisons aligned with their gender identity.
Fans hold flags celebrating Pride Night during a game between the Houston Dash and Angel City FC at BMO Stadium on June 25, 2023, in Los Angeles, California.After 17 days, Amber Kim has suspended her one-woman hunger strike protesting her involuntary transfer to a men’s prison.
Transferring trans women to men’s prisons or changing housing policies in response to allegations of sexual activity divides them into categories: those who are seen as safe and deserving to be housed in a women’s prison, and those who no longer deserve safety considerations, he toldThat divide also “creates the implication that trans people present unique safety concerns that non-trans people don’t,” he added, despite several studies showing that incarcerated trans people are far more likely...
“When you asked me what my typical day looked like, they don’t differ from day to day when it comes to dealing with my mental anguish of not getting my vaginoplasty surgery and being in this men’s prison,” she wrote“The moment I wake up I am faced with having this penis! It’s a brutal reminder of how I am being held captive in this body that is not mine. Then I have to face all the discrimination, transphobia, misgendering, all the weirdos, perverts, creeps.
Instead, she was returned to New Jersey State Prison. There, prison officials told her that she needed to fill out an official transfer request. She also learned that the prison psychologist had flagged her as moderate to high risk of committing sexual violence. When she met with him in early July, she learned that his assessment had been based purely on her pre-surgical genitalia.
Furthermore, he notes that sensationalistic media about trans women in women’s prisons reverberate far past the individuals and prisons.
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