Transgender Prisoners 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.

Prison personnel have not been doing much to secure the safety and well-being of transgender inmates. Some even engage in the unruly behavior and are the dominant aspects to the problems that transgender inmates sustain. Many transgender inmates have attempted to seek justice, but their cases were thrown out. Consequently, it is imperative that people know the conditions and obstacles, in which transgender prisoners encounter while incarcerated. The problems and concerns need to be addressed in order to raise awareness, to help provide safety and security for transgender prisoners because they are humans too. This paper will raise awareness and provide insight on the challenges that transgender prisoners experience, ways to improve conditions, and what policies are already put into place.

Imagine being a woman in a men’s prison. For many prisoners, this is the case because most state court correctional decide to sentence transsexual women in transition inmates based on sex assignment, not their identity. Within most dominant U.S. cultures transsexual women in transition are defined as those whose sense of gender is so absolutely opposed to their sex assignment at birth that they individuals desire to live exclusively as the opposite sex, undergo hormone treatments to align with the opposite sex, and sometimes undergo surgery to match their sexual organs with their gender identity (Stirnitzke 291). Often people are

Scholars have been critical of the medical establishment’s and state’s involvement in constructing and policing of transgender identity. These kinds of pressing issues have occupied the small existing literature. There is not much information and studying what is being done on transgender in traditional areas, family studies research, such as their dating behavior and formation of intimate relationships in adulthood. There is little research on the issues around being parents, their children’s experiences with having transgendered parents, as well as relationships in the family as a whole, and relationships in work and school.

Correctional providers are also encouraged to provide educational materials for transgender individuals coping with their HIV diagnosis. The second theme pertains to patient safety, which considers safety measures for transgender individuals due to their experience of being targets of violence (Phillips & Patsdaughter, 2010). The acknowledgment of safety concerns validates the experiences and concerns during incarceration. Discharge planning is the third theme ensuring that prior to discharge, individuals will receive sufficient hormone therapy until they find a community provider (Phillips & Patsdaughter, 2010). Connecting transgender

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

This article is about the war on transgender women in US immigration Detention centers. These women are immigrants that are seeking refuge in the United States from their home town as immigrants, because of the torture, sexual violence, and other forms of abuse because of their gender identity. They are to be held in these detention centers awaiting asylum to the United States or they will be deported back if they fail to pass violation cases. Since the United States does not formally have a transgender detention center, these transgendered women are being put into holding cells with men. During this time the men will physically, verbally, and sexually assault them. The caretakers of these women in the detention centers also fall victim to treating them wrong and denying medical care to those who ask of it. HIV-related care and hormone replacement are two of the many medical necessities that these women are turned down from. These women are also for more prone to being put into

Defined as a person whose biological gender does not conform to their self-identity, transgender people are a class of society that have been subject to severe vulnerability and discrimination over the years. Discrimination and vulnerability is especially apparent when a transgender individual has been incarcerated in a facility or institution. This evaluative essay will firstly highlight and investigate the legalities through the means of acts, policies and/or procedures that limit transgender prisoners of their rights in prison in Queensland, Australia. Secondly, the current status of transgender prisoners in the state of Queensland will closely be compared and contrasted to the degrading and discriminatory values that have been incorporated into the United States of America. In conclusion, the current success of addressing the area of transgender individuals in Queensland’s prisons will be examined, along with any recommendations that can be made to wider accept and provide for transgender prisoners in Queensland.

Blight, Jake. 2006. “Transgender Inmates.” Trends and issues: crime and criminology 16 (8): 1-6. Accessed April 16, 2016. http://aic.gov.au/media_library/publications/tandi_pdf/tandi168.pdf

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

Transgenders are being categorized as being mentally ill. Though transgender counseling exists it only focuses on pathology and diagnosis. Transgenders are also severely at risk of hate crimes. In the United States alone, there are 321 transgender hate crimes per year. Transgender hate crimes can be compared to Muslims post-9/11. There’s no law to protect them from these hate crimes and nothing is ever really done to show them that they have rights too. There’s no law protecting them with employment right’s either. Due to discrimination they are vulnerable and led to no job, homelessness, suicide and even no health care. ( Anneliese A. Singh, Danica G. Hays, and Laurel S. Watson 20)

Police profiling is far from a thing of the past. Recent events in American society have exposed not only racial profiling, but now discrimination and bias-based arrests on transgender individuals. While many corrections officers believe they are doing their jobs by arresting transgender people that they perceive as criminal or engaging in illegal activity, at times some officers take their harrassment too far and use their force in a bias-based manor. It is the responsibility of police to protect the rights and the safety of all citizens, and it is imperative that ALL officers in duty understand this aspect of their job.

The highest rate of sexual abuse was reported by African-American transgender inmates at 34 percent. A high percentage of physical abuse against male to female (MTF) transgender inmates was at 21 percent and 11 percent of female to male (FTM) were reported. MTF also had higher incidents of sexual abuse of 20 percent to FTM reported at 6 percent (Grant, Mottet & Tanis, 2011). Another problem is non-staff correctional personnel treating transgender inmates unethically. Twenty-two percent experienced harassment when they interacted with police; 6 percent also reporting physical abuse and 2 percent reporting sexual abuse (Grant, Mottet & Tanis,

Discrimination has been a problem for many years, from the slaving of African Americans dating back to 1619, to the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) individuals being shot in the streets a few weeks ago. However one specific group of people, transgendered people have been targeted for decades, yet they haven’t had the mass media coverage as other discrimination issues have. Focusing on their physical abuse, and psychological impact and the substance abuse from the discrimination they face; I hope to highlight these issues and show that they need help fighting this discrimination as well, and this isn’t just an individual problem but the bigger society’s issue.

“There is an undeniable epidemic of fatal violence against transgender and gender non-confirming women, specifically transgender women of color in the United States…” The topic of transgender women of color becoming countless victims in our country is a travesty. Transgender and gender non-conforming individuals in general are at high risk for violent acts to befall them. The information that follows will be specifically focusing on transgender women of color in the United States.