QT: How do we determine who is identifying as trans in bad faith under self-identification?

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[–]kwallio 11 insightful - 1 fun11 insightful - 0 fun12 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

There is literally no downside to id-ing as a woman in prison. You get special treatment and the women prisoners can't complain.

Personally I'm in favor of trans only prisons, or parts of prisons. You want to get out of the gen pop in the mens prison? Fine, but you don't get to have access to women.

[–]comradeconradical[S] 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yes I agree, but in practice it is simply not cost efficient to build a separate prison for less than one percent of the population, which is why I also tend to fall back on a separate wing in the prison of their birth sex as a compromise. It's not a compromise that's well received though, because often they wish to completely co-opt women's spaces. Why? Validation? Exploitation? Whatever it is, it doesn't justify the adverse effects of housing natal males in women's prisons and on other institutions/services.

Again, it is a matter of objective, material, measurable reality versus subjective, internal, individual ideology. I don't see why the latter should ever prevail over the former, and I am still waiting for a QT to analyze how some people's individual gender ideologies are more or less valid than others and how they can tell the difference.