bobalob

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by bobalob 2y ago
The problem is male prisoners, yes. Which is why segregating prisoners by sex is an essential component of safeguarding. And then further separation of vulnerable prisoners within each prison. If, in a male prison, there are inmates who des
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by bobalob 2y ago
Not as fringe as you may believe. Raymond's book sold a lot of copies. But more impactfully, radical feminist ideas on this topic and others continued to develop, and became increasingly influential from then to now. One aspect of this
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by bobalob 2y ago
Understood, but I would still recommend reading that article, as it addresses some of your points and you may find it an interesting perspective.
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by bobalob 2y ago
Feminists were protesting this way back in the 1970s. Janice Raymond even wrote a popular book about it. Here's a review of her book, from 1979, which lays out many of the same points around this issue as are being discussed today: ht
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by bobalob 2y ago
This article is a good read, it explains why it's problematic to bestow upon men awards that were intended for women: https://www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/2018/9/21/does-the-appa...
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by bobalob 2y ago
In the case of prison policy, keeping prisoners strictly separated by sex, with no transfers of male prisoners into women's prisons allowed, under any circumstances. Prisons should of course have safeguarding policy for further separat
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by bobalob 2y ago
> And how often has the latter actually happened? Often enough to demonstrate that incarcerating males in women's prisons on the basis of self-declared "gender identity" is harmful policy that needs to be removed and cance
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by 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.
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by bobalob 2y ago
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 ba
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by bobalob 2y ago
That is a strong ideological belief, for sure. Implementing it as policy in the prison system has been disastrous for female prisoners, with multiple cases of rape, assault and impregnation of incarcerated women by male inmates who claimed
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by bobalob 2y ago
The only sensible solution to that is segregation within male prisons, as is done for other vulnerable groups of inmates such as ex-cops, gang informants, pedophiles, child killers, and similar. Incarcerating males in the female prison esta
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by bobalob 2y ago
It's what is already done for other classes of vulnerable inmates. They just need to put them there instead, problem solved.
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by bobalob 2y ago
This is good news for female prisoners, at least those in federal prisons. Hopefully the federal government can take measures to keep male inmates out of women's prisons and jails at the state and local levels as well. Perhaps through