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[–]BEB[S] 12 insightful - 1 fun12 insightful - 0 fun13 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

She was put into isolation because that's standard protocol for transgender prisoners until the Transgender Review Committee can decide where they are best housed. I'm guessing that once the reality of jail hits, a lot of TiFs realize that they're female after all. Go figure...

[–]worried19 5 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 0 fun6 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I don't get why an obviously natal female prisoner requesting to be put in with other female prisoners would need any special review, though. It should be automatic. There should only be a review if Uribe was demanding to be put in with men.

[–]BEB[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I'm guessing that the prison put her in solitary to ensure that men and women get equal treatment: TiM prisoners and their deep-pocketed funders, seem to be very litigious, so I'm sure that if they let TiFs access women's prisons immediately, there would soon be a TiM screaming something along the lines of, "How come he (meaning the TiF) gets to go straight to the prison of his choice and I have to be in solitary?!?!?"

[–]worried19 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Could very well be. The prison has to seem neutral regardless of sex. I suppose it wouldn't be considered fair to treat females differently from males.

[–]Shesstealthy 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

It seems like a failure of communication. They didn't tell this person that they were being given this protection because of being trans specifically.

[–]BEB[S] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

She (the TiF) doesn't seem very bright. And I'm sure the whole experience was terrifying for her.

The police are sometimes aggressive towards protestors - I saw it firsthand when I protested Iraq War II. They would scream at us to get on the sidewalk when we were already on the sidewalk. And the protestors at the anti-war rallies I went to were mostly well-dressed professionals on their lunch hour, and middle-class moms pushing strollers, so not exactly a fearsome mob.

And that was years ago, before the police got all the US military equipment and started training in Israel, which seems to have convinced them that we are all insurgents.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/israelis-training-us-police-on-large-scale-amnesty/ar-BB14S1z9