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Italy's All-Transgender Prison: That's Amore?

Started by Butterfly, January 16, 2010, 02:29:40 PM

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January 16, 2010, 02:29:40 PM
Italy's All-Transgender Prison: That's Amore?
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Keri Renault
January 16, 2010 2:30 PM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/01/italys_all-transgender_prison_thats_amore.php


Italy plans to designate a former women's prison specifically for transgender inmates. The proposal may be the first globally to separate gender variant inmates from the cisgender criminal population.

My first reaction was wariness. I tend to sniff for ulterior motive when public policy and transgender interests intersect. Perhaps it's the segregationist undertones of the proposal that leave a lingering aftertaste - a proverbial bitter pill, as it were. The transgender community seeks inclusion and equality. So the notion of an all-transgender prison, at first blush, sits as well with me as the idea that an insular, transgender gated community would provide a better way of life.

On second thought...
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January 16, 2010, 02:38:01 PM
Quote from: Leslie on January 16, 2010, 02:29:40 PM
Italy's All-Transgender Prison: That's Amore?
The Bilerico Project
Filed by: Keri Renault
January 16, 2010 2:30 PM


http://www.bilerico.com/2010/01/italys_all-transgender_prison_thats_amore.php


Italy plans to designate a former women's prison specifically for transgender inmates. The proposal may be the first globally to separate gender variant inmates from the cisgender criminal population.

My first reaction was wariness. I tend to sniff for ulterior motive when public policy and transgender interests intersect. Perhaps it's the segregationist undertones of the proposal that leave a lingering aftertaste - a proverbial bitter pill, as it were. The transgender community seeks inclusion and equality. So the notion of an all-transgender prison, at first blush, sits as well with me as the idea that an insular, transgender gated community would provide a better way of life.

On second thought...

Yeah... If it were a world free of extremely ulterior motives, then I'd feel like it was a positive thing to protect transwomen from male prisons... Still.
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