"Women’s rights should not depend on their location, their status, or the trending mood of popular think tanks."
"Recently, The Center for American Progress put out a policy paper that talks about restrictions on transgender participation in sports. This has been a hot topic recently, as WNBA player Sophie Cunningham has been dominating the headlines with her stance that men should not be permitted to play in the women’s category. This paper, however, does not resolve the debate of whether or not biological sex should be the decision-making factor in participation in women’s sports. What it is admitting is that sex should be given fair review in at least one setting. But if sex matters in athletics, shouldn’t it matter in other intimate spaces as well?
"There is a demographic that has no voice and is forcibly subjected to sex-based protections. The demographic in question? The women in our nation’s prisons. These vulnerable women who have already survived abuses of every kind are now living with, showering with, and serving their sentences with male prisoners — no questions asked. One of the most common misconceptions about this is the proximity male inmates have to female inmates. There is no separation. There is no specialized housing unit for trans-identifying men. They are coming directly from men’s level 4 yards — meaning some of the highest security possible, some even from men’s death row — filtering directly into women’s general population. That means men coming from a security level that simply does not exist in any women’s prison, being housed with female prisoners who are levels 1-4. Historically, women, in most states, are not separated by security levels because there has never really been a need to do so.
"According to the California Department of Corrections website, there are currently 49 biological men housed in the state’s two women’s prisons, with 224 requests pending review. The convictions of the 49 biological men who have successfully transferred range from carjacking to rape by force or fear, and even include the murder of another inmate while in custody. These are the same people that the female inmates were told would not qualify for transfer. They were told the review process would be stringent and that there would be no risk of sexual predators or individuals with histories of violence against women slipping through the cracks." . . . More...
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