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> Rape is endemic throughout the prison industrial complex, protections for prisoners are nowhere good enough. The most effective safeguarding measure against

by zzrzzr 2y ago

> Rape is endemic throughout the prison industrial complex, protections for prisoners are nowhere good enough. The most effective safeguarding measure against this for female prisoners is the segregation of inmates by sex. SB132 has demolished this protection for women in Californian prisons and, as the linked articles discuss, we now see the awful and entirely avoidable consequences of this law, within just a few years of it being enacted. Exactly as women's rights advocates made legislators aware would happen in their unfortunately futile efforts to halt SB132 from being passed.

jquery 2y ago
After 2 years of implementation, California has not seen an increase in sexual assaults. It's almost like transwomen aren't the problem. Anyone can file a request, but the request must be approved, and this is based on the totality of the situation with the prisoner. Someone doesn't get to just wake up one day and go "I'm trans" and automatically get approval, this is fearmongering from transphobes. There's tons of oversight involved and the idea this is some kind of "loophole" for horny cis guys is bigoted nonsense.
- zzrzzr 2y ago
  Please consider reading the 4W article I linked above. It explains the problem. You may find this enlightening also: https://womensliberationfront.org/news/wolf-attends-preliminary-hearing-for-people-v-tremaine-carroll https://womensliberationfront.org/news/wolf-attends-prelimin... A relevant extract: "The four witnesses for the prosecution gave detailed accounts of two horrible rapes and the efforts by the alleged perpetrator to dissuade one of the victims from seeking justice, even after she was moved to a new facility for her safety. "One of the witnesses cited SB132 as the reason why Carroll was being housed in the women’s facility in the first place. He also noted that only males can rape females and that, until these past few years, there were no prisoners physically capable of rape."
  - fennecfoxy 2y ago
    That last part isn't true and is really only based on most men going "ah shit happens" to pretty much everything bad that happens to them in their lives until it all boils over into a violent outburst or suicide. :/

by zzrzzr 2y ago

jquery 2y ago

After 2 years of implementation, California has not seen an increase in sexual assaults. It's almost like transwomen aren't the problem. Anyone can file a request, but the request must be approved, and this is based on the totality of the situation with the prisoner. Someone doesn't get to just wake up one day and go "I'm trans" and automatically get approval, this is fearmongering from transphobes. There's tons of oversight involved and the idea this is some kind of "loophole" for horny cis guys is bigoted nonsense.

zzrzzr 2y ago
Please consider reading the 4W article I linked above. It explains the problem. You may find this enlightening also: https://womensliberationfront.org/news/wolf-attends-preliminary-hearing-for-people-v-tremaine-carroll https://womensliberationfront.org/news/wolf-attends-prelimin... A relevant extract: "The four witnesses for the prosecution gave detailed accounts of two horrible rapes and the efforts by the alleged perpetrator to dissuade one of the victims from seeking justice, even after she was moved to a new facility for her safety. "One of the witnesses cited SB132 as the reason why Carroll was being housed in the women’s facility in the first place. He also noted that only males can rape females and that, until these past few years, there were no prisoners physically capable of rape."
- fennecfoxy 2y ago
  That last part isn't true and is really only based on most men going "ah shit happens" to pretty much everything bad that happens to them in their lives until it all boils over into a violent outburst or suicide. :/