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...

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.

Women Born Transsexual
By Suzan
19 January, 2010


http://womenborntranssexual.com/2010/01/19/italy-%E2%80%9Cto-open-first-prison-for-transgender-inmates%E2%80%9D/

http://birdofparadox.wordpress.com/2010/01/13/italy-to-open-first-prison-for-transgender-inmates/