A federal appellate court ruled last week that Oregon may house trans women inmates in men’s prisons, overturning a lower court’s ruling earlier this year.
The three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals consisted exclusively of Donald Trump appointees. They voted unanimously to overturn an April ruling from U.S. Magistrate Judge Mark D. Clarke ordering the Oregon Department of Corrections to assume that trans women prisoners should be housed in women’s prisons, and then assess individual cases to confirm that placement, not the other way around.
Especially when the US practices v-coding
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-coding
Thank you for linking this. Lately I’ve been trying to be more vocal about this topic (and sexual violence against trans people in general) because it’s become clear it’s really just not well known outside trans communities
I had no idea and it’s horrifying; paraphrasing: we allow them to rape the trans woman to reduce their violence against other inmates… Because the raped trans woman is not considered an inmate? Because raping is not violent? Or because a man with a black eye is worse than a woman with a black eye??
I think the idea is that people are less likely to try to kill someone they’ve been given free reign to rape than someone that pisses them off. And that trans women who’ve been hurt are less capable of attacking guards than cis men who’ve been hurt
I had never heard of this… I wish I could go back in time a few minutes and stay a teeny bit more blissfully ignorant.
That’s fucking horrific