Jail to house transgender inmates with preferred gender

http://www.sfexaminer.com/jail-to-house-transgender-inmates-with-preferred-gender/

SF Examiner/By Jonah Owen Lamb on September 10, 2015 5:00 am

"The San Francisco County Jail by year's end will be the nation's first county jail to allow transgender people to be housed with their gender preference, according to Sheriff Ross Mirkarimi, who is up for reelection this fall.

The move will start in weeks by taking transgender individuals to the women's jail to attend classes. By the end of this year, each transgender inmate's housing location will be decided on a case-by-case basis.

The development comes after years of the Sheriff's Department working with transgender and LGBT rights groups to end the targeting of transgender inmates behind bars."

One more step forward to people recognizing our gender is not determined by our genitals. Hopefully its simple and successful and positively effects not just the justice system but the school systems that so often try and push trans kids away from segregated spaces.

Serena