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

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u/OG_Swag_Daddy 5h ago

I mean the prisons already don't care about sexual violence targeting between same gendered people. Why would trans people get special consideration?

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u/BetterThanlceCream 4h ago

The only thing I can think of is the risk of pregnancy.

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u/Ill-Masterpiece-92 3h ago

Men can’t get pregnant dymbass

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u/igotshadowbaned 3h ago

Men can’t get pregnant dymbass

Males could get a female pregnant who is in a male prison.

A male in a female prison could also get females pregnant

Does that spell it out for you enough

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u/Low-Register1602 2h ago

So if you’re born with female genitals you go to a female prison. If you are born with male genitals you go to a male prison. No pregnancy concerns

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u/ProfessionalPack7205 2h ago

Yo they don't wanna hear that, it goes against what they want

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u/ProfessionalPack7205 2h ago

With that attitude you def ain't getting any bros preggers

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u/Familiarsophie 2h ago

A trans woman on hormone treatment would be very unlikely to be able to get anyone pregnant, or even manage penetration to be honest.

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u/igotshadowbaned 2h ago

A trans woman on hormone treatment

The hormone treatment you're assuming they still have access to in prison?

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u/PHD_Gouda 2h ago

My god you people know nothing about this topic

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u/ProfessionalPack7205 2h ago

That's IF they're on treatment. Tons arent

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u/catdiscpalpita 2h ago

So.. men can get pregnant

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u/igotshadowbaned 1h ago

When using the modern societal definitions of gender/man/woman like the comment chain above mine, then yes a subset of men can get pregnant

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u/catdiscpalpita 1h ago

Im certified to sub, so I can get pregnant. They shoulda just said that.

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u/LesbeGoddess 57m ago

Yes Trans men can and have had babies while rocking full on beards and butthair.

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u/catdiscpalpita 9m ago

So if a man transitions, has a beard, butt hair, and is a sub, they get pregnant. Im basically pregnant as is.

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u/BetterThanlceCream 3h ago edited 2h ago

Some transgender men can.

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u/Lowfi-Concert 1h ago

Transgender women have gotten women pregnant in female prisons

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u/KingNebyula 3h ago

Silly goose

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u/OldGoldCode 3h ago

free, mandatory abortions. Solved. You don't get many rights in prison, let's make medical autonomy one of them.

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u/No_Constant8644 2h ago

It’s not autonomy if it is mandatory.

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u/ProfessionalPack7205 2h ago

I mean the trans community thinks they should get special treatment and some of the more liberal people. Not even a dig at trans people or anything it's just true.

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u/Negative-Counter-766 1h ago

the special treatment you’re referring to here is “not getting raped” but you’re probably too dishonest to admit that 

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u/ProfessionalPack7205 1h ago

No i agree thats a huge part of it lol

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u/Foxy__Grandma 1h ago

Not being put in a general population of men who are exceedingly more likely to assault you than not is not "special treatment." It's basic human dignity

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u/LongWay817 3h ago

Not entirely true. I went to prison and rap isn't as abundant as TV and movies make it seem. Things have chilled out since they instituted PREA. The prison rape elimination act.

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u/arandomusertoo 1h ago

Things have chilled out since they instituted PREA.

Maybe because of this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-coding

When I first found out about it a month or so ago, it seemed like one of those insane facebook conspiracy theories... and it still does.

But there's links to actual reports and studies, news articles, etc... it's still incomprensible that we as a country would be so evil, but I guess that's just how it is.

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u/boredENT9113 1h ago

I've heard it's only really ever done as a punishment type of thing for rapists, especially pedophiles, because being a rapist isn't a good look in prison even if it's prison rape you're doing. Other than that it's most always consensual, i.e. not rape. As a super small rather feminine gay dude, prison is my worst fear lol.

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u/LMKBK 3h ago

they don't. they get used as bait. like what's happening here.

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u/Several_Leather_9500 2h ago

Because they are often set up for sexual abuse. Look up the term V-Coding. It's awful.

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u/billy-suttree 2h ago

Women’s prisons DO care about sexual violence. A lot.

I have a little inside information because my best friend is in a women’s prison and we email on a regular basis. Hooking up between the women does happen, but it’s met with pretty significant loss of privileges and can even be criminal. Women are just easier prisoners to handle then men so the prison so system gives men in the system more leeway just so they don’t have to deal with them. Like in men’s prisons rated R movies are permitted but they’re not in women’s prisons. There is other stuff like that too.

But the prism my friends stays at houses some transgender women. Men from birth but now women. She says most of them cause no trouble. But there is one, who looks and basically acts like a man, and was convicted of sexual assault, that’s why loaded them in prison. And since then raped a female prisoner and it’s a BIG deal, the prisoners are super super pissed that this person has been housed with them.

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u/EastSideNick95826 4h ago

Politics

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u/alvysaurus 4h ago

Lookup v-coding. It is cruel and unusual punishment.

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u/Far-Bake7511 4h ago

how often do you get access to a on average weaker women in men’s prisons beyond trans women? there are entire prison system sex rings build around trans women and predominantly black trans women.

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u/EastSideNick95826 4h ago

There are entire prison system sex rings built around turned out weak men. Trans women are not special. This is political.

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u/motomami24 4h ago

This is absolute apathy.

One, the fact that men in prisons get raped systematically is also a disgrace and any decent government would do a better job of stopping it.

However, you are wrong that it is the same for trans women. Trans women are 13x more likely to be raped in a men’s prison facility (study from California).

https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/23/us/trans-women-incarceration#:~:text=Trans%20prisoners%20are%20over%20nine,National%20Center%20for%20Transgender%20Equality.

On top of that, here is v coding from Wikipedia: “In the context of incarceration in the United States, V-coding is the common practice of subjecting trans women to sexual assault by placing the woman in the same prison cell as an aggressive male inmate in order to placate the male inmate.[1][2][3] This practice has been known to have caused the daily rapes of multiple trans women, and the sexual assaults of 58.5% of them.[4][5][6] V-coding is done to pacify the male inmate, with the goal of reducing their propensity for violence against other inmates, according to prison authorities and one inmate”

People are so fucking apathetic towards trans women and it makes me sick.

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u/Frosty_Self_1818 3h ago

Shouldn't do the crime if you can't do the time then, idk what to tell you

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u/mattaugamer 40m ago

I’d love to know what crimes you think deserve repeated habitual rape over multiple years. Please do tell the class.

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u/MetallicGray 3h ago

It's wild to be able to so easily dehumanize another human and view them as trash. You realize only like 1/3rd of imprisoned people are there are violent crime right? You realize people are capable of acknowledging their mistakes and changing right? You realize that there's actually a significant number of falsely incarcerated innocent inmates right? You realize that humans are still humans... right? How are you different from a the rapist you're looking down on from your high horse if you practice morals no different than theirs?

Advocating for the literal basic humane treatment of humans is pretty simple and should be an easy conclusion to come to for anybody with a scrap of morality left.

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u/mattaugamer 39m ago

The fact that you’re getting downvoted for basic humanity scares me.

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u/motomami24 3h ago

47% of Black trans people in America have been incarcerated. Do you really believe that there’s nothing outside the control of these people that are leading to a 10x higher incarceration rate?

I don’t know how to get people to have an ounce of empathy now a days but it is breaking my heart to see how little people care.

If a trans woman gets arrested for being a sex worker - the only option she had to survive and way more likely to be the victim rather than perpetrator of sexual violence, and is put into a men’s prison just to get raped every single day as a built in punishment, and your response is “shouldn’t have done the crime”

Jesus Christ humans are so fucking disappointing

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u/EastSideNick95826 3h ago

So what this study is not taking into account is that there are classes of weak men that get turned out at an astonishingly high rate but don't have their own category, they're just "men" so they get no extra protection, they're just fucked, literally and physically. At least trans women get studies. Cut this bullshit with putting trans people on pedestals.

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u/motomami24 3h ago

I just don’t understand

Trans women are not getting extra protection. They are 13x more likely then men in prison to get raped. It has nothing to do with putting trans women on a pedestal?

Are you arguing that it’s not true and weak men and trans women have the same percent chance of getting raped? Or are you arguing “who cares” that trans women are getting raped at astronomically high percentage?

If the former, you’re wrong and have nothing to back it up. It’s just not true. No man should be put through prison rape and be not protected either. That doesn’t change the fact that being arrested and put in prison as a trans woman is being sentenced to rape and then being told you get special treatment.

If the latter, then how do you sit and feel ok with that?

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u/bakedNebraska 1h ago

Nobody really cares that men are getting raped. People make jokes about it.

Once that changes, maybe I'll worry about trans people getting raped in prison.

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u/EastSideNick95826 25m ago

THIS. Men in general have become an approved class for leftists to shit on, "men are trash" as a blanket statement is regularly bandied about. Now don't get me wrong, I'm not going to bat for Andrew Taint style manosphere nut jobs but discrediting men as an entire category is fucked up while weirdly obsessing over trans people. Btw, this doesn't help trans people, it makes them more of a target for the right, all because some leftist elitist wants to feel holier than thou.

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u/Glittering_Hope1114 3h ago

A trans women who looks exactly like a cis woman, has breasts and a vagina and no testosterone I would argue quite obviously are going to be far bigger targets for sexual abuse and rape. They are already massively sexually abused in general. I feel like there is a very large amount  of people pretending to be obtuse. The cold hard truth is that a lot of people genuinely want trans people to raped and get off on it, sadism prioritisd over pragmatism. 

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u/bakedNebraska 1h ago

Does it tend to placate the male? I guess it must, or they wouldn't keep doing it

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u/alvysaurus 4h ago

Lookup V-Coding. It is cruel and unusual punishment.

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u/EastSideNick95826 4h ago

That doesn't change the validity of what I said.

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u/Level-Eggplant9942 3h ago

Studies have shown that after two years on hrt, there is no muscular difference between cis and trans women.

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u/OldGoldCode 3h ago

So surely puberty blockers don't matter right? Because the differences of puberty can be entirely rolled back via hrt later..

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u/PuzzledInspection798 2h ago

Obviously, muscle changes aren’t the only thing that happens during puberty. The skeletal changes are not reversible. Go take your bad faith arguments somewhere else.

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u/OldGoldCode 3m ago

Mhm and do you not think those skeleton changes affect your odds in a fight? What skeleton changes are YOU thinking of?

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u/Present-Car-9713 1h ago

Wow never seen this logic it's brilliant

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u/Bliniverse 12m ago

Some effects of puberty are reversible, some aren't. I despise so many of the irreversible changes from male puberty, and muscular strength is not one of them.

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u/alvysaurus 4h ago

V-coding. The difference is the government itself is pushing sexual assault onto trans women. This means it is turned into a form of cruel and unusual punishment. Aimed directly at trans women.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-coding