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What do you mean by "more aligned"? Some names to search as examples of why this policy of incarcerating males in women's prisons is so harmful: Tremaine Carro

What do you mean by "more aligned"? Some names to search as examples of why this policy of incarcerating males in women's prisons is so harmful: Tremaine Carroll, Janiah Monroe, Demi Minor, Ramel Blount, Karen White. To go back even further as to why prisons became sex-segregated in the first place, please look up the work of Elizabeth Fry. She documented the awful conditions in mixed-sex prisons of the 19th century, and how terrible this was for female prisoners. Her evidence helped bring in changes to the law that ensured female and male prisoners were separated.

locopati 2y ago
You keep talking like trans women and cis women means mixed-sex. It does not.
- bobalob 2y ago
  It does. The sex of the former group is male, and the sex of the latter group is female. Incarcerating female and male prisoners within the same prison environment means that it is mixed-sex.
  - locopati 2y ago
    How are you using the term "sex"? Birth sex is not useful when talking about trans people, who may be on hormone replacement therapy or have had gender affirming surgeries. To fixate on that is to deny the reality that trans people don't necessarily fit into the gender binary (and at the same time many do). Our systems are structured by gender binaries and so accommodations need to be made for those who don't fit perfectly (which also helps cis women who do not present as traditionally feminine). I cannot speak to prison policies that have created conditions for the attacks you have mentioned, but a blanket policy putting trans women in men's prisons is putting their lives at risk, while a case-by-case policy is not necessarily putting cis women's lives at risk if it is implemented well. The notion that trans women are inherently dangerous to cis women, which is the conclusion you seem to be arriving at because you are thinking of trans women as men, is a false notion. Cis men are the greatest danger to cis women. If the amount of attention being placed on trans women were instead being placed on that fact, maybe cis women would actually be safer. Trans people exist and always have. Right now we are being demonized because we are an easy target. And when folks like you buy into that, you are doing the demonizing work for the people who are controlling through division. Trans people are not a problem to be solved. We're just fighting to keep our rights from being taken away.

locopati 2y ago

You keep talking like trans women and cis women means mixed-sex. It does not.

bobalob 2y ago
It does. The sex of the former group is male, and the sex of the latter group is female. Incarcerating female and male prisoners within the same prison environment means that it is mixed-sex.
- locopati 2y ago
  How are you using the term "sex"? Birth sex is not useful when talking about trans people, who may be on hormone replacement therapy or have had gender affirming surgeries. To fixate on that is to deny the reality that trans people don't necessarily fit into the gender binary (and at the same time many do). Our systems are structured by gender binaries and so accommodations need to be made for those who don't fit perfectly (which also helps cis women who do not present as traditionally feminine). I cannot speak to prison policies that have created conditions for the attacks you have mentioned, but a blanket policy putting trans women in men's prisons is putting their lives at risk, while a case-by-case policy is not necessarily putting cis women's lives at risk if it is implemented well. The notion that trans women are inherently dangerous to cis women, which is the conclusion you seem to be arriving at because you are thinking of trans women as men, is a false notion. Cis men are the greatest danger to cis women. If the amount of attention being placed on trans women were instead being placed on that fact, maybe cis women would actually be safer. Trans people exist and always have. Right now we are being demonized because we are an easy target. And when folks like you buy into that, you are doing the demonizing work for the people who are controlling through division. Trans people are not a problem to be solved. We're just fighting to keep our rights from being taken away.