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The Spectacular Stupidity of Transgenderism
‘Boundaries gone’: California prison officers & inmates reportedly concerned at transfer of trans convicts based on chosen gender
8 Apr, 2021 13:10
FILE PHOTO. Exterior view of the Federal Correctional Institution Terminal Island in San Pedro.
© Getty Images / Christina House
US officials have started approving requests from transgender inmates asking to be transfered between male and female jails. With over 260 such requests received, the move is reportedly opposed by other prisoners and officers.
The California Department for Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) has approved 21 requests from inmates who asked to serve their terms at male or female facilities based on their gender preferences. This year, 261 such requests have already been received, and four transgender inmates have been transferred to Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, a CDCR spokesperson confirmed to US media, adding that transfers have been slowed down due to Covid-19 precautions.
According to deputy press secretary Terry Thornton, 255 requests came from transgender women and non-binary incarcerated people, requesting to be housed in a female institution. Only six are from transgender men and non-binary people wanting to be moved to a male institution, she told the Daily Caller News Foundation (DCNF). Not a single gender-based housing request has been denied, the official confirmed, adding that two inmates whose requests for transfer had been approved then “changed their minds.”
So, only 2% of transgenders want to switch to male-oriented prisons. That's not unreasonable since female-oriented prisons are probably better than male prisons. But what does it say about transgenderism in general, if anything? Should there be such a dramatic difference?
Not a single request was denied!!!! In other words, there is no reasonable test applied to each application. The two who changed their minds just add to the proof.
The obvious danger of putting biological men among women seems to have escaped the fools running the CDCR.
Transfers should only be considered for those who have had cross-sex surgery and have no male parts dangling from them. That's the only way to ensure the women prisoners are not in danger of being raped by men. It will also dramatically decrease the number of requests to those who really are transgender, not those wanting a better environment.
At the least, those transferred to women's prisons should equal in number those who are going in the other direction. The current policy is sheer madness.
The move, permitted by a recent law signed by Democratic California Governor Gavin Newsom in January, is now reportedly opposed by prison workers, mainly female officers. Speaking to KTXL television in Sacramento, an officer said she and her colleagues were not “comfortable” with the changes. “You’re ordered to go strip out this inmate in a secure room… it takes your power away,” she said, adding: “Where’s the boundaries? Boundaries are gone.”
Prison officers are forced to follow the new rules under fear of reprimand from administration, the media reported. Citing an internal prison email, it said that if female staff refuse to perform a strip search of a transgender inmate, they “will be given a direct order by the supervisor to perform the strip out and if they still refuse, that supervisor will author a memo and provide it to the facility captain in regards to insubordination.”
Fears of a possible increase in sexual violence at correction facilities have been reportedly expressed by female inmates as well. There are concerns that some male inmates could “infiltrate” female facilities under false claims of gender identity. “How do we determine who really are transgender inmates coming into the prison system… [women here] are afraid that male inmates will infiltrate this prison system and cause problems,” one of the inmates told the Los Angeles Times.
“I do think [transgender inmates] should be safe, but it infringes on my right to be safe as well,” added another term-serving woman, who previously survived domestic violence by a man.
The controversial bill that allows inmates to choose a male or female prison based not on anatomy but rather on “individual’s preference” concerns over 1,100 California prisoners identifying as transgender, intersex or non-binary. The number makes up just over one percent of all inmates in the state, which has one of the largest US prison systems. To implement the law, several million dollars was requested from the budget, according to CDCR. Connecticut and Massachusetts have similar legislation.
The California bill is in line with President Joe Biden’s policy. He has widely supported the LGBTQ community. Since his first days in the office in late January, the Democrat president has already penned several gender-related laws, including cancellation of Trump’s ban on transgender recruits in the military, and extended federal non-discrimination protections to members of the community.
Transgender woman initially denied transfer to female prison in Israel
due to ‘masculine appearance’ – media
10 Apr, 2021 08:51
The Neve Tirtza prison in Ramla, Israel. © www.gov.il
A transgender woman who suspended hormone therapy was forced to spent 10 days isolated in a men’s prison in Israel, after officials argued she wasn’t suited to a women’s jail, a report says.
The newspaper Haaretz reported that the inmate, identified in the media only as L., was transferred from Neve Tirtza, Israel’s only women’s prison, to Nitzan, a men’s jail, on March 29.
The inmate had initially arrived at the women’s prison and spent five days there in isolation, which is the time given to authorities to decide on where to house transgender people. Officials later decided to relocate L., citing her “masculine appearance.”
A prison legal service adviser, Michael Avitan, described the inmate using male pronouns and told the Tel Aviv Magistrates’ Court, which had previously ruled that L. should be returned to Neve Tirtza, that a women’s jail was “not appropriate for his needs.”
According to Haaretz, the country’s prison regulations allow cases of transgender inmates to be considered on an individual basis, which includes an appraisal of their “appearance” and “the stage of gender identity assignment” they have reached.
L. was said to have stopped taking testosterone blockers and estrogen after a suspected allergic reaction to one of the hormones. The paper cited a letter from her doctor asking that the prison authorities “treat her as a woman.”
The inmate was ultimately allowed to remain in a women’s jail after her lawyer appealed to Israel’s Supreme Court. At that point, L. had already spent 10 days in isolation in a men’s prison, which was against regulations, Haaretz said.
L. was arrested on March 22 for allegedly trying to extort money from ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in Tel Aviv who had sex with prostitutes. She denies the charges.
Since 2016, transgender inmates must be placed in isolation only for disciplinary offenses and not held there indefinitely as a precaution. They are allowed to participate in all prison activities alongside cisgender inmates.
Ramla, IS
Left and far-left people seem to believe that the ends justify the means. Flat-out lying is, therefore, an acceptable way of convincing people of your beliefs, no matter how misguided.
Actress and model called out for championing puberty blockers for trans kids, claiming ‘loads of girls’ were on them in the 1990s
14 Apr, 2021 17:21
FILE PHOTO: Jameela Jamil, seen at the American Music Awards in Los Angeles, California, November 24, 2019 © Reuters / Danny Molosho
Actress and model Jameela Jamil has tweeted in support of giving controversial puberty blockers to trans kids, claiming she knew “loads” of girls in school who took them. Her story was swiftly deemed BS.
Until transgender issues entered mainstream discussion in recent years, few readers had likely heard of “puberty blockers,” drugs sometimes administered off-label to transgender children to buy them time to decide their preferred gender. Mired in political controversy, the drugs’ use in transgender medicine has not been extensively studied, but at least some severe side effects, including brittle bones and malformed genitals, have been reported.
Jameela Jamil is all in favor of these drugs. “Puberty blockers are not permanent,” the actress, model, and former BBC presenter tweeted on Wednesday. “Loads of girls at my school were on them for very early heavy periods. This was in the 90s. I don’t remember hearing the outcry about how dangerous and evil they were then.”
Jamil claimed that the current outcry against puberty blockers is only happening because transgender teens are asking for them.
However, commenters quickly cast doubt on Jamil’s claim that “loads of girls” at her school were given these drugs in the 1990s, suggesting that they were instead given birth control pills for heavy periods, a far more common treatment for that problem.
Untangling Jamil’s claim is not straightforward, though her story certainly seems highly unlikely, and purely anecdotal. Some puberty-blocking drugs have been around since the 1980s, though they have typically only been given to children who experience ‘precocious puberty’, a condition affecting roughly one in 5,000 kids, based on figures from the US. The first study on their use on transgender children was published in the UK in 2011, and they are not among the treatments recommended for heavy periods.
Jamil is perhaps better known as an activist than an actress, and has campaigned against “body-shaming,” and in support of the Black Lives Matter movement, as well as various feminist and climate-related causes. However, she’s been caught out for allegedly lying before, dubiously claiming several times to have been attacked by swarms of bees and to have suffered from various health conditions.
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We’re a similar age I think and I don’t know anyone who was on puberty blockers for heavy periods in the 90s? I’m not saying you’re wrong but I went to an all girls school; we shared so much stuff and I don’t know how I missed this? Were they called something else?
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She is confusing puberty blockers for the birth control pill, which is often prescribed to girls w/ PCOS to help regulate their cycle. Contraceptives are not the same as puberty blockers, which are permanent, & no girls at her school got. Being pro trans doesn’t = license to lie.
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A transwoman who raped a female in an horrific attack has been jailed for 15 years – but could still end up in a women’s prison
Debbie Hayton is a high school teacher and trade union officer. She teaches science to 11-18-year-olds at a school in central England. As a transgender person, she has written extensively about what it means to be trans and how trans people can be included in society without compromising the rights of other vulnerable groups. Her work can be read in publications from across the political spectrum, where rational scientific debate is allowed and encouraged. Follow her on Twitter @DebbieHayton
20 Jan, 2021 14:40 / Updated 2 months ago
A transwoman who raped a female in an horrific attack has been jailed for 15 years – but could still end up in a women’s prison. Michelle Winter © cambs.police.uk
We’ve got to get real about the dangers of allowing vicious sex offenders with male anatomy to serve their sentences alongside vulnerable female prisoners. They are violent predators who pose a clear threat to women.
Last Friday, Michelle Winter was convicted of rape at Cambridge Crown Court in the UK. The victim told police that she still had nightmares about the incident and had since woken up screaming “Get off me!”. In sentencing, Judge David Farrell described Winter as a dangerous individual, with a “clear propensity to violence.” This was a horrendous attack.
But according to the local press, Winter’s victim then suffered the additional ignominy of hearing her abuser referred-to by female pronouns throughout the trial. Winter, it seems, “identifies as a woman,” terminology that has become so familiar that it rolls off the tongue before our brains question it.
Under the Editor’s Code governing the written media in the UK, journalists are obliged to use the pronouns that transgender individuals use to describe themselves, and there is no exemption for rapists. I shall therefore avoid pronouns. Partly out of respect to the victim, who may well be sickened by it, but also to avoid misleading any readers into thinking that a woman did this.
I may not be able to adorn Winter with pronouns, but I can quote from the law: “A person commits an offence [of rape] if he intentionally penetrates … another person with his penis.” The emphasis is mine, but the words are straight from the Sexual Offences Act 2003.
So when one British newspaper wrote the caption on its story about the case, ‘Trans woman jailed for 15 years for raping another woman,’ I was appalled.
We must hold on to these words in the Act because when we change words, we change the way we think. Biology cannot be fooled –even if people can be– and we risk overlooking the fundamental issue: rape is male sexual violence, and it is committed by men.
This, in itself, should be enough for a judge to dismiss any claim by a rapist that he identifies as a woman.
For this appalling crime, Winter was sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment, which, in Winter’s case, raises the question, where? Under a disastrous 2016 policy, that may well have been a women’s prison. With astonishing naivety, the UK Ministry of Justice announced that “People who are living in a gender different to that of their assigned sex at birth should, as a general presumption, be treated by offender management services according to the gender in which they identify.”
Whatever fantasy world they imagined, the reality was epitomised in Karen White, a convicted paedophile (6th story on link) who was on remand for grievous bodily harm, burglary, multiple rapes and other sexual offences against women. Despite being legally and anatomically male, White dressed as a woman and was duly transferred to a women’s prison. The metaphorical fox in the hen house then sexually assaulted two other inmates before being moved back to a male jail.
Even a glimpse of common sense could have prevented those two assaults.
White’s is not an isolated case – there have been at least six other sex attacks in women’s jails by transgender convicts. When these figures were revealed last year, Nicola Williams, director of the campaign group Fair Play For Women, said: “These new figures are another warning about something everyone knows: Allowing males into female prisons is dangerous for women.”
Not to mention strikingly stupid!
The rules have been tightened up since then, but they are still based on balances of risk, and Winter could yet be placed in a women’s prison. The current 2019 policy states “A balanced approach must be adopted when making allocation, care and management decisions relating to transgender individuals, balancing the risks and well-being of the individual with the risks or impact on well-being that the person may present to others.” Should Winter apply for legal gender recognition, the default option would still be a women’s prison.
The group who seem to be forgotten in all this are, of course, women in prison. Nowhere does the policy suggest asking female prisoners how they feel when biologically male people with penises are moved in with them, and there certainly is no mention of a veto. Women are expected to accept the decision and not complain.
But prisons are segregated for good reason. Women inmates are a vulnerable group, need protecting from stronger, often sexually violent, male criminals, and are relatively few in number. In the UK they comprise just four percent of the total prison population. At that rate, a hypothetical mixed-sex prison would average one woman for every 25 men. It would be a nonsensical idea. Besides, the United Nations Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners requires that, “Men and women shall so far as possible be detained in separate institutions; in an institution which receives both men and women, the whole of the premises allocated to women shall be entirely separate.”
But to apply the UN rules, we need to be clear how men and women can be distinguished in the first place, and that is an ongoing debate. Not everyone would agree with me that men and women are distinguished by our biology. Gender identity – despite being unprovable and unfalsifiable – has been written into laws and policies across the world, including the policy that applies to Winter.
We need to take a step back from that debate, and consider the underlying principles. Women and transgender people might both be vulnerable groups in prison, but they are not the same and they should be treated separately.
While much effort has been invested in policies and risk assessments, rather less thought has gone into maintaining the dignity of human beings. Women prisoners have a right to single-sex accommodation, no ifs no buts and no loopholes, and I say that as a transgender person myself.
Rather than campaigning to infringe the rights of women, transgender campaigners should be calling for transgender rights to be protected within the prison system designated for our sex: single-cell accommodation, separate washing and toilet facilities, and further protection that may be necessary.
Which brings us back to Winter, now facing a long stretch in jail. Prison is not meant to be an enjoyable experience. After the trial, Detective Constable Jack Henderson said, “I hope this sentence will serve as a deterrent to Winter and anyone else who chooses to sexually harm another person.”
I hope so too, but words matter. We need to think straight, and we need to be honest. In the UK, rape can only be committed by men. People with penises. This is not the crime of a woman, whatever the feelings in Winter’s head. For the sake of the victim – and indeed all women – that is something we must not forget.
Isn't it really simple? If a man has committed a violent act against a woman, he should never be allowed in a women's prison regardless of what he claims.
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