Transgender inmate seeks rare transfer to female prison

[ainsley]

https://apnews.com/8e3e919709db41f1b5b51071a96778b8/Transgender-inmate-seeks-rare-transfer-to-female-prison

By MICHAEL TARM
Today

Transgender inmate seeks rare transfer to female prison

CHICAGO (AP) — A 26-year-old transgender Chicago woman serving a 10-year sentence for burglary is seeking a transfer from a male to a female prison where she says she'll be less vulnerable to abuse.

A federal judge will hear testimony Friday on Deon "Strawberry" Hampton's transfer request. She says guards single her out for regular sexual abuse, taunting and beatings at the high-security men's prison she's at now in southern Illinois.

Prison officials can assign such male-to-female transgender inmates to women's prisons, but it happens infrequently. Federal data from 2016 indicates there were no transgender prisoners in Illinois' two female prisons. There were 28 in the state's 24 male prisons.

Testimony in Benton will include experts describing how Hampton has identified as female since she was 5.

[elkie-t]

 I had read somewhere that a trans person without bottom surgery might be more endangered (physically abused, tortured and raped) in female prison than in a male prison. The idea was that male criminals would only want sex, while female would see it as an opportunity for revenge. Although, I'd like to hear stories opposing that idea.


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[Charlie Nicki]

I hope everything works out for her. Keeping her there is almost like torture.

[tgchar21]

Also, a transgender person who is still fertile with regards to their birth sex but housed with other prisoners of the gender they identify with could lead to procreation in prison (which is the fundamental reason why prisons are sex-segregated).

[ainsley]

Also, a transgender person who is still fertile with regards to their birth sex but housed with other prisoners of the gender they identify with could lead to procreation in prison (which is the fundamental reason why prisons are sex-segregated).

Interesting point.  But, does the delineation point have to be srs, or merely infertility?
Discuss.

[Gertrude]

Why aren't the crimes against her being investigated? It seems a slam dunk to move her if guards are sexually abusing her.


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