Jarhyn
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Transgendered women need not male genitilia. And, do you have any evidence that transgendered women necessarily share cells with cis-women?
My understanding is that transgendered women were placed in women's prisons because they were targets for violence in men's prisons and too hard to protect there. IMO, a better solution is to have a transgendered women section in a woman's prison than to have them mixed in with the general population if there are going to be problems.
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I think the idea of a transgendered section in a prison is in theory a good idea. Might be a little difficult though with an existing prison. Will they have their own exercise yard, cafeteria, rec room? What about prison jobs? All that may be a tall order if there are only a handful or less trans prisoners, not to mention the social isolation aspects. That could be more damaging overall than the risk of violence. The other point is that there are many prisoners who are at high risk of violence from other prisoners. Pedophiles, wife beaters/killers, snitches, celebrity prisoners (Jeffrey Dahmer, anyone). Shouldn't they get their own section too?
It's interesting that you recognize the more general form of the problem (prisons by their nature and principles of operation create safety issues for the people so imprisoned), but you seem unwilling to accept that there is, because of the generality of the problem, a general solution.
This to me all comes down to the failure for developed nations to move away from "punishment" and towards something more useful and less awful than merely binning people, often with those who they will inevitably harm for no good reason.