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Title: Officials soften objections to DP bill, trans prisoner rule
Post by: Natasha on September 19, 2008, 05:33:45 PM
Officials soften objections to DP bill, trans prisoner rule

http://www.washingtonblade.com/2008/9-19/news/localnews/13296.cfm (http://www.washingtonblade.com/2008/9-19/news/localnews/13296.cfm)
9/19/2008

Corrections officials had noted the change was needed because the city's Human Rights Act could be interpreted to force city prison authorities to assign male-to-female transgender inmates — including those transitioning from one gender to the other — to female living quarters in the D.C. jail. Prison officials feared doing so would create a potential danger for female inmates, who could be subjected to sexual harassment or assault by female trans inmates who have male sex organs.
Title: Re: Officials soften objections to DP bill, trans prisoner rule
Post by: Secretgirl on September 20, 2008, 08:43:47 AM
Where they have placed fully post-operative, legally female transwomen before?

Posted on: September 20, 2008, 08:02:46 AM
I read that they have generally placed transpeople by their current  external genitals however one post-op woman was placed as ''mistake'' to men's side. Also one normal woman who looked very masculine.