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Title: California prison manuals change with the sexual times
Post by: SandraJane on December 03, 2012, 01:21:34 AM
Post by: SandraJane on December 03, 2012, 01:21:34 AM
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California prison manuals change with the sexual times
November 30, 2012 | 9:00 am
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California prison officials are revising official procedures and even prison garb to get up to date with changing mental and medical treatment of inmates who identify with one sex and their bodies, another.
The state issued part of an updated operations manual this week that directs employees to stop using the prior official term, "effeminate homosexual." Those inmates are now to be called "transgendered," in keeping with current nomenclature used by the medical and mental health fields.
California prison manuals change with the sexual times
November 30, 2012 | 9:00 am
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2012/11/prisons-change-with-the-sexual-times.html (http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/california-politics/2012/11/prisons-change-with-the-sexual-times.html)
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California prison officials are revising official procedures and even prison garb to get up to date with changing mental and medical treatment of inmates who identify with one sex and their bodies, another.
The state issued part of an updated operations manual this week that directs employees to stop using the prior official term, "effeminate homosexual." Those inmates are now to be called "transgendered," in keeping with current nomenclature used by the medical and mental health fields.