Japan - Gender-conflicted inmates to get solo bathing time, choice of undergarme

[Felix]

Gender-conflicted inmates to get solo bathing time, choice of undergarments

The Japan Times
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20120305a6.html

The Justice Ministry has issued a new guideline for handling prisoners with gender identity disorder that allows them to bathe alone and wear the underwear of the gender they identify with, sources said Saturday.

The guideline was issued after some prisoners who were born male but identify themselves as female, filed complaints about their treatment, prompting local bar associations to lobby the ministry and prisons to show more respect in protecting GID prisoners' human rights.

[lilacwoman]

UK prisoneers are allowed this same freedom but I do wonder if the testosterone laden air of a prison doesn't predispose a person to feelings of being TG when in fact the excess of T is just cycling them through highs and lows of E.
Added to the testo air is the lack of natural sex while unlimited porn must be causing much internal stress so it is natural that many will claim to be TG.

If we assume that only one in 6,000 males are TS then what is the ratio of these people in the Japanese jails' total population?

I can't find any statistics on numbers but I like the regime and woudl like to know how good it is at turning out good citizens: 
http://japan.usembassy.gov/e/acs/tacs-7110g.html