please don't leave out the space in trans women. trans is an adjective that can apply to a woman like tall or cis or happy. 'transwomen' as one word implies a thing seperate from women, rather than a descriptor that applies to some women.

Especially when the US practices v-coding

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

I hope you're right. This is unsettling otherwise.

One trump appointee is bad luck, two is a coincidence. Three appointees is on purpose.

It's reality, what are you people talking about. Let's just commingle violent male offenders with women because it's the right thing to do. I see women choose the bear all the time, and you're like "desegregate prisons!" Good idea.

Yeah, I like to include the Wikipedia link when I talk about it specifically for that reason. It's a bold claim and while it's believable, it's easy to imagine it's something we only know about through stories and community knowledge. But no, this is a real, documented pattern of direct targeted harm done through an apparatus of state power. It takes this issue from one of theoretical harm to documented systems of harm.

Where trans women are in the prison system we need programs to protect us from such behaviors. In places where it isn't politically or legally feasible to house us in women's prisons we should at the bare minimum be kept from being forced to share a cell or other places of vulnerability (such as shared showers) with men.

We also need to combat the prevalence of prison rape in all cases and the sadism of prison guards. But those alone aren't a replacement for targeted opposition to v-coding and the conditions that enable it.

I don't understand how the article can claim middle of a genocide when it's just reviewing laws and policies. A genocide is when killing happens no? Where are those statistics?

I was fucking baffled at how they were like “waaaahhhhh they’re cheating 🥺” and then did… nothing.

Absolutely.

Fucking.

Nothing.

It showed me exactly how seriously the Democratic Party took the matter, and how unfit for the task and the situation they had become. That was more or less the moment I began seriously losing faith in the integrity of the government, as well as losing any faith at all that the Democratic Party would be willing to lift a single fucking finger to save the republic.

Honestly. Yes.

Though the first change would be an overhaul of what incarceration actually does. Which is rehabilitation and not punishment.

Not to say serial killers should be put in gen pop, but that gen pop is more like a stricter kind of boarding school/employment program. Where people learn job skills and can actually get employment to live off of instead of being forced into crime again because now they are even more unemployable.