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Title: Transsexuals Can Choose Jails
Post by: Suzy on May 13, 2007, 10:16:01 PM
Post by: Suzy on May 13, 2007, 10:16:01 PM
Channel 24 News, South Africa (http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1892464,00.html)
Madrid - Transsexual inmates in Spain soon will be able to serve their sentences in facilities for men or women according to their "psycho-social identity", and not according to their original gender, reported the El Pais newspaper on Sunday.
According to the centre-left daily, a directive is about to be published concerning the incarceration of individuals who have undergone a sex change.
Madrid - Transsexual inmates in Spain soon will be able to serve their sentences in facilities for men or women according to their "psycho-social identity", and not according to their original gender, reported the El Pais newspaper on Sunday.
According to the centre-left daily, a directive is about to be published concerning the incarceration of individuals who have undergone a sex change.
Title: Re: Transsexuals Can Choose Jails
Post by: RebeccaFog on May 14, 2007, 08:52:06 PM
Post by: RebeccaFog on May 14, 2007, 08:52:06 PM
Wow! This fits Leslie Feinberg's notion that MTF's and woman and others all deserve a 'safe' place. Not that prison is necessarily a safe place.
I hope I stated the above correctly.
I hope I stated the above correctly.