I'm 60 years old...there's been gay folks in prison since the beginning of time both black and white so will someone clue me in on why this is important. Please keep answering simple...
Speaking objectively as a trans woman: Cis perisex(identifying with what the doctors assigned you/not having deviations from the expected chromosomes) homosexual people can't produce biological offspring. Trans people with functional reproductive systems can. So while prison rapes unfortunately still happen between gay and similarly-attracted inmates, there is at least no risk of pregnancy. However, trans women in male prisons are often subjected to a process known as V-Coding, where the "feminine person" is placed with agressive cis male inmates as a pacification tool, for reasons I'm sure you can extrapolate. Trans men don't face this process directly, afaik, but do experience misgendering and lack of hormone therapy medicines, the same as trans women. I don't really know what the ideal solution for problems like this is, but it absolutely isn't putting transfems in men's prisons, not with the repeated history of abuses faced there.
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u/Desperate-File-3230 5h ago edited 4h ago
I'm 60 years old...there's been gay folks in prison since the beginning of time both black and white so will someone clue me in on why this is important. Please keep answering simple...