Transgender Prisoners At Queensland Correctional Facilities

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.

Orange is the New Black, a comedy drama TV show that first aired on Netflix is 2013, follows Piper Chapman on her journey through an all women’s minimum security prison. The show is critically acclaimed due to the wide expanse of topics it covers. Not only is it taking on the topic of female prisoners in the United States prison systems and its accomplishments and flaws, it focuses on the female inmates and their backgrounds. The show touches various subjects such as sexual orientation, gender, race, and religion. There are inmates of all races and ethnicities and various different religions are portrayed, such as Catholicism, Buddhism, and Wicken. There are heterosexual, bisexual and homosexual inmates. There is one inmate that

This eBook reports on issues relating to multiple elements of incarceration within Australia’s Criminal Justice System. Specifically, a large allotment of text is allocated to discuss transgender inmates and their sexual identification once in prison. The author Cyndi Banks, acknowledges that prisons may adopt either genitalia- based placements or a identity based placements and notes that if genital reconstructive surgery has not been undergone, the inmate will be identified as their birth sexual orientation. Further, the text discusses the detrimental effects these systems have on transgender prisoners and states that research data indicates that these manners of imprisonment may ultimately affect the offender’s chance of successful rehabilitation, which is a significant problem. This literature is effective in portraying the current problems associated with transgender inmates, and has has aided me to understand that the sexual identification of a transgender inmate has a significant impact on them during the period that they are incarcerated. Additionally, this is a problem that a prison officer within scenario seven would be required to comprehend and this text begins to explain solutions to this.

This paper is about the different issues transgender prisoners face in the United States. Transgender prisoners are often targeted and abused by both inmates and police officials due to being placed in the prisons of their biological sex. Transgenders are a misunderstood group of minorities in the United States. Transgenders do not receive the same health care as other prisoners and do not always receive their hormone therapy. Prisons over the U.S. are trying to find new ways to make better environments for transgender prisoners. Some prisons allow transgenders to buy female and or male products, but with no desecration from police officials it leads to further abuse within the prison and psychological damage to trans prisoner. Transgender

When addressing critical issues that are interfering with the implementation of an effective correctional system, factors such as aging, mentally ill, and transgender prisoners need to be taken into account. While the aging and mentally ill dominate the aspects of funding due to their higher needs for medical and mental health requirements, the transgender deals with a more societal and human rights perspective, but can also have the element of a medical cost. Each of these types of prison populations have strong ties to political, policy, economic, and legal issues and how each of them are dealt with. These issues are what largely determine the outcome of both positive

175) as mentioned previously that it is possible for anyone to be raped or assaulted while in prison the chances of a transgender prisoner are significantly higher. In fact according to an international survey of correctional procedure’s it was found that only 20% of the correction procedures actually have policy for treatment of transgender prisoners (Edney, 2004 p. 329). Once incarcerated the transgender prisoners are stripped away of everything used to make them feminine or

Social justice can best be defined as an idea or belief that every individual in Australia, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion, ability, sexual orientation, or gender, should be allowed to have equal rights, securities, and responsibilities. While there are laws and policies in place to protect all Australians there is still a need for continuous work on social issues for minority groups (Humanrights.gov.au, 2016). In Australia social justice can involve many different types of people and communities, this essay will predominantly focus on the transgender men and women and issues that affect their community. Presently, there is a limited amount of information in the social work sector with regards to working with the transgender community;

Transgendered individuals are more likely to be questioned and stopped by the police due to the fact that they are not the same as those around them. Additionally they are more likely to be engaged in survival crimes such as sex work, end up behind bars, and more likely to face abuse behind bars. They are humiliated daily; physically, sexually and are now emotionally scared for life.

In 1994, the US Supreme Court addressed prison rape for the first time when they ruled that Dee Farmer, a transgender female inmate, was a victim of cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment. Though prison officials knew Dee Farmer was a trans woman, they housed her in a male facility, where she was repeatedly beaten and raped, and subsequently contracted HIV. Farmer argued that prison officials knew that she was vulnerable and at risk for assault but failed to do anything to address the issue. The US Supreme Court ruled that the prison officials violated the Eighth Amendment by “commit[ing] an act or omission accompanied by ‘deliberate indifference’ to a substantial risk of serious harm to an inmate” (Maruri, 2011, p. 819). Since 1994, several cases related have pushed the issue of transgender inmates in the national conversation. Most recently, Chelsea Manning, who was charged with releasing confidential US military documents came out as transgender over the course of her trial. This helped to focus attention on the experience of transgender inmates in prison . Through the lens of the prison industrial complex, I will explore the experiences of transgender, intersex, and gender nonconforming inmates (TIGNC), a population subjected to gross human rights violations as wards of the State. Although the term “transgender” is most commonly used to someone who does not identify with their sex assigned at birth, those who identify as intersex or who do not

This is the first time that a president has said the word “transgender” in the State of the Union address. These words were not said by any accident and should not be taken lightly. All the cases he named are actually some of the most widely discriminated groups of people in the country, as well as the world. The group i’d like to analyse is that of the transgender community. I myself as well as people who are dear to me do not identify with the socially “correct” understanding of gender or sexuality. August 14th of this year marks the 15th murder of a trans individual, an all time high. (Time) Subsequently, I’ve witnessed hate, and I now hope to have a clearer understanding through a sociological analysis. Using the theories and tools of thought I will explore discriminatory actions taken against them, how these actions affect their standards of living and even their personal health. Understanding this, then I’d like to speak on what we as a first world are repairing these issue in comparison to other nations.

Both gender role and display focus on the behavioral aspects of being a woman or a man as opposed to biological differences between the two.” (West, Zimmerman, 1987) “Sex is a determination made through the application of socially agreed upon biological criteria for classifying persons as females or males.” (West, Zimmerman, 1987) Because of this many in society believe a person’s sex is based on their genitalia or chromosomal makeup. For these reasons society often feels that it is “fact that men are men and women are women. This division between these two categories is perceived as natural and rooted in biology.” (West, Zimmerman,

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

Every characteristic of an individual’s life is determined by their genitals. “Why is gender attribution so meaningful to social order and why does the inability to classify someone sex’s cause such a major disruption?” (Preves, 2004:13). Gender classification starts from birth, when a baby is identified as a boy or girl. The reveal of the child’s gender designates their future. Their social interactions, gender roles,

In this paper, I will talk about the differences of sex and gender from the aspect of transgenderism. To begin with we will provide a brief background on the sex and gender. Whenever a human born, they always have a natural sex with them. Sex, a more biologic and physiological meaning, which means two main categories, male or female, into which organisms are placed on this basis. On the other hand, gender is a social meaning pertaining to masculinity and femininity. (Urdy, 1994) It is including that biological sex, sex-based social structures or gender identity. (Haig, 2004) When we born in this world we cannot get rid of the influence of our context. As a result, sex and gender may be different for one person. Thus, some people, who have a difference sex from his or her gender, may struggle with themselves and all the world. The transgenderism suggests us about the differences of sex and gender from several parts and I will only discuss parts of them because of the limitation of words and time. For example, they have different meanings and also refer to different area. The most important is that they have different influence on how people identity themselves. Although sex and gender is different, they are many sociologists assume that we should consider sex and gender are the same. In next several sections I will elaborate the definition of sex and gender and their

Male and female. Two words, that define our entire lives from the day we are born. Binary classifications of sex and gender have always been the norm in society. The entrenchment of those categories in identification documents, expose individuals who do not correctly fit into the status-quo of these two categories. Among them, intersex people are especially vulnerable. In recent years, the LGBTQ community has had strong pushes for more rights and societal recognition, however there is still one hole remaining that flies under the radar all too often. To this day, people are still predominantly unaware of the existence of intersex people. However, through the striving growth of the number of intersex groups and individual activists, the