Transgender Detainers: A Case Study

Transgender people in today’s society have it hard enough; going to prison is even harder due to the risks associated to someone who is transgendered. People who are transgendered risk their health and well-being while being locked up in prison. They face a variety of issues while they are incarcerated such as housing, physical, emotional abuse and most of all denial to their basic medical needs that helps express who they are through their gender.

Prisoners that are incarcerated go through many hardships during the course of their sentence. The mistreatment that inmates in prison encounter is unjustifiable in many cases. Amongst the inmates mistreated, transgender prisoners are challenged in many ways with abuse, misconduct, and discrimination. Transgender individuals are people who do not identify themselves with the gender that was assigned at birth. The high-risk profile of being a transgender inmate in prison strikes for deep concern and something needs to be done.

Regarding access to healthcare, transgender individuals often face the most obstructive barriers when attempting to receive care. Whether they are seeking access to hormones, therapy, general health services, reproductive healthcare, or specialty healthcare, transgender patients typically cannot get what they need without jumping through many hoops or hiding their identities. This occurs especially so in cases of intersecting identities -- where an individual is not just transgender, but is transgender and a person of color, disabled, gay, indigenous, undocumented, poor, etc. These intersecting identities interact in multifaceted ways to produce even more barriers for trans individuals seeking healthcare due to healthcare provider bias, insurance requirements, and doctors’ general unwillingness to help coupled with inaccessibility founded on racism, transphobia, homophobia, mental illness stigmatization, etc.

Tens of thousands of people joined the #BoycottTarget petition which opposes retail giant Target’s transgender bathroom policy.

In order to reduce the risk of harm, many prisons have elected to put their transgender inmates into segregation, to keep them away for the general population (Smith, 2012). Administrative segregation is often used the most when housing transgender inmates. This form of segregation is very similar to solitary confinement, meaning that inmates are put in a single cell and left alone for hours at a time (Simopoulos & Khin Khin, 2014). When put into administrative segregation, the inmate often loses various opportunities such as being able to work, having visitation hours, exercise, specified treatment, and other activities (Smith, 2012). It is not unusual for the segregation cells to be less then desirable. Most times they dirty, unkempt and sometime even

The same reason the transgendered women are leaving their homes is the same reason why they want to raise awareness to higher officials. I believe there should be no reason why these women should be battered and commented foul things in the detention center. If they are seeking refuge because of a way they are being treated in another country and America is the land of the free, than they may feel as though they should move back. The detention center is the first place where these women have interaction with American people, and the male guards should not shout absurd things and attack them for changing their identity. As the article states, “If the US is unable to supply safe housing for transgendered women, than they should not hold transgendered

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While it may not seem like such a large problem, simply being transgender puts them at risk for sexual harassment or abuse. Prison Rape Elimination Act or PREA has recognized that transgender people have higher risks of being sexually harassed or abused, thus they mandate that these prisoners be assigned to make or female housing. In an article called Transgender Prisoners Face Sexual Assault it says, “PREA also mandates...transgender prisoners be assigned to male or female housing on a case-by-case basis that gives ‘serious consideration’ to the prisoner’s sense of where he or she would be safest.” Stating that based on how the prisoner’s sense of where he or she feel that they would be safer, it should be up to them to decide where they decide to be housed. Why was this situation brought up? In a Pittsburgh jail, Allegheny County Jail, a transgender woman named Jules Williams, was a victim of sexual and physical assault and harassment multiple times while detained there. While Williams identified as a female, she was processed and incarcerated with men. The jail and staff refused to protect Ms. Williams, who was begging to be put into protective custody. Therefore, going against PREA and failing to meet the obligations for transgendered people from the abuse and placing them in unsafe conditions, they were

The number of estimated people in who identify as a transgender in United States of America is 700,000, according to 2011 findings from the Williams Institute, the transgender population represents about 0.3% of American adults. Disheartening research from the 2011 National Transgender Discrimination Survey reveals that 41% of transgender participants (2,644 out of 6, 540) had attempted, at some point, take their own lives. One of the reason why they attempting to suicide is because of discrimination about their gender. People are debating about should transgender individual should have their own bathroom and many people are getting affected by the issue. The use of public restroom by transgender individual has long been a polarizing issue.

Transgender women will be allowed to enroll in one of the three female-only colleges at Cambridge University, as well as Barnard College and Smith College did in 2015.

Our nation is facing a pressing issue that no one can find an adequate answer to. How do we deal with the many problems that are faced when dealing with transgender individuals? These people have somehow snuck their way into our schools, workplaces, military, and public restrooms. They should be condemned for the actions that they take against us when they argue how we should treat them.

place to them. You wouldn't be wrong in assuming that those fuzzy little maniacs are going to

out of there house by force and putting them somewhere that they never been with other

Please remember to lock all doors and windows in your apartment (front door, patio, and storage) as well as cars doors.

An interesting case I read up on after class was the disagreement about the transgender student at the largest high school district in Illinois against the federal authorities. The transgender student, born as a male, but identifying as a female is suing the high school district 211 in Palatine, the suburbs of Chicago because the student was denied the rights to shower in the female bathroom. The student identified as a female and is allowed to play on the girls sport team for several years, but now demands full access to the girls locker room.