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.
Focusing on the important part, nevermind the article or the subjugation and dehumanization going on. That’s small potatoes.
Two things can be true at once, and fighting for a just world means fighting battles on many fronts. If someone is outraged at the awful dehumanisation discussed in the article, then I would imagine that they’d be more likely to be receptive to a minor, polite correction in language. Better for that conversation to happen in a thread like this than in a more public context.