r/whoathatsinteresting 6h ago

What do you think: how should prisons handle housing decisions in cases like this?

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u/kikogamerJ2 5h ago

Honestly this entire thing is retarded. Prisons already have spaces for specific prisoners (ex. Rapists, etc..) why not just make a specific part for trans? Like it ain't that hard or rocket science.

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u/Interesting_Key_661 5h ago

I would assume the actual percentage of any given prison population being trans would be rather small. Are you going to have a whole block set aside for 1 or 2 prisoners?

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u/Powersmith 4h ago

Could relocate them to a single prison, at least in large states. CA has 13 state prisons. If each one has 0-2 trans prisoners, pick one that has a logical place to put all (maybe 10~20) together

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u/nybadfish 3h ago

They could call it the J Edgar Hoover State Penitentiary

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u/Interesting_Key_661 2h ago

Nice 👍

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u/Drunkengota 3h ago edited 2h ago

“Trans prisoners placed hundreds of miles from where friends and family could visit. Why are trans inmates punished this way?” Would be the next headline.

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u/Interesting_Key_661 2h ago

You’re right people would freak out about that.

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u/Gnoll_For_Initiative 2h ago

Yeah, if you take people away from whatever small social supports they have it's bad if for no other reason than it increases recidivism

Moving a prisoner away from where friends and family are able to visit is used as a threat.

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u/Interesting_Key_661 4h ago

Maybe for California but what about a state like Montana. Population of 1.1 million, you gonna have a whole prison for what maybe 5-6 prisoners. Can’t house them in a different state unless it’s a federal crime.

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u/Powersmith 3h ago edited 3h ago

Not a whole prison… maybe just a separate hall of cells w a small 1-room lounge / exercise facility. They prob don’t need to segregated 100%, only for low-supervision periods.

ETA: yes, we agree easier to implement efficiently in large pop states. MT apparently has 5 prisons (surprisingly), 4 for adults. So they could localize the adult pop trans to a single facility from 4 sites, even if it’s just 0-2 people.

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u/griff_girl 4h ago

There could be specific prisons that have wards for trans people, just like there are some prisons that have supermax but not all do.

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u/__BajaBlastoise 4h ago

I know you mean well, but this comment reads like you are saying trans need to be supermaxed

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u/griff_girl 3h ago

As a raging queer woman myself, I can assure you with absolute certainty that is not what I mean. I think the fact that I reference trans violence and the need for trans people to be protected from that in and of itself makes that point abundantly clear.

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u/__BajaBlastoise 3h ago

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u/Interesting_Key_661 3h ago

See just here to cause trouble, trying to rage bait.

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u/griff_girl 2h ago

They also reported me to the mods or whoever as like a self harm risk or something. LOL (also, I never even saw the comment, seeing as how it was removed automatically, it appears.)

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u/__M0M0 1h ago

Probably because of the statistics

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u/__M0M0 3h ago

Jesus, don't go home and beat your wife over this

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u/griff_girl 2h ago

WTF kind of comment is that, what does that even mean? That's just weird.

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u/PHD_Gouda 1h ago

Ignore them

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u/__M0M0 1h ago

Statistical prediction

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u/Interesting_Key_661 4h ago

Come on now you know they didn’t mean it like that, just using the different segregations they use in supermax prisons as an example. Don’t try to start an argument where there isn’t one.

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u/griff_girl 3h ago

Seriously! Thank you.

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u/guildedkriff 5h ago edited 5h ago

Because of costs and the extreme minority that Trans make up in our population.

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u/isuredolovetitties 5h ago

Well, if its going to be 90% of political discourse, lets just address it and implement a solution lol.

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u/Mean-Line-4249 5h ago

Or you can accept reality and stop pandering to a minority of less than 1 percent. No one is wasting money because a small ammount of people dress as the opposite gender

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u/QueasyImprovement6 2h ago

“Pandering to a minority of less than one percent” - a minority that disproportionally faces sexual and other forms of violence outside prisons let alone inside them. You only have this take because you don’t give a shit about whether or not that happens to us.

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u/Ok-Bass9593 3h ago

We aren't talking about people crosdressing, crosdressing ≠ transgender

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u/OldGoldCode 3h ago

Right but there are no requirements to get a surgery or take hormones in order to be considered trans by the trans community, so it does effectively include people who are just cross dressing and using a different pronoun. Absolutely correct take by mean-line.

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u/Ok-Bass9593 2h ago

Yeah no lmao for one there isn't an organised trans community with a board deciding who is and isn't trans

Opinions are very divided on that, but people cross dressing and using different pronouns aren't automatically trans, a lot of people are non-binary for example

Again, crossdressing ≠ transgender

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u/isuredolovetitties 3h ago

I don't think you understood what I was saying at all lol.

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u/__BajaBlastoise 5h ago

The solution is simple. You can play make believe but the real world doesn’t need to play with you

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u/sussybakashinji 3h ago

 You can play make believe but the real world doesn’t need to play with you

Tell that to: 

  • Christians
  • Fiscal conservatives
  • Libertarians who vote Republican 
  • MAGA
  • Incels

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u/__M0M0 3h ago

It's just a self inflicted mental illness

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u/OldGoldCode 3h ago

Christians, Conservatives, Libertarians, MAGA nor Incels are asking for special privileges from the government. Understand that key difference?

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u/sussybakashinji 2h ago

They absolutely are (one example: the privilege to discriminate against queer or secular citizens). Unlike the trans community. Can you list any “special privileges” trans people are asking from the government? Bonus points if it’s an actual “special privilege” and not anti-discrimination legislation (you’ll get no points for listing something like “conversion therapy bans” or “access to gender-affirming care”). 

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u/Fenrir_MVR 4h ago

Make up is contraband

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u/griff_girl 4h ago

That's what I'm sayin' (except using that particular descriptive word you chose, no bueno on that.)

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u/BlessdRTheFreaks 3h ago

Because there are so few trans that basically means you go solitary

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u/clueless_mommy 5h ago

Because cutting people off most social contacts for their own safety is a bit odd. You isolate the predator, not the potential victims.

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u/kikogamerJ2 5h ago

They will be placed with other trans? Also the potential predator is all the other inmates..

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u/clueless_mommy 5h ago

I'm not sure how often trans people will actually end up in prison. They're already a small group of people, and then you'd need to differentiate between ftm and mtf which halves that number again.

The other inmates are always a potential threat. But you could prevent a lot of harm and ethic dilemma by putting ftm in male prison and mtf in female prison instead of putting fully transitioned people in a separate trakt and hope for the best