De facto punishment of transgender individuals in the penal system.

[BarstowCowboy]

18. Once again, I respect that you have experience

I do a lot of work with the immigrant community, and as such I've been to a few detention centers. In my experience, predatory prisoners (the ones who would be most likely to commit a sexual assault) are identified and placed in solitary confinement. Less violent, less predatory prisoners are also identified and housed together. This is something called a Quay system. I don't know if I mentioned it in the OP, but I'm not in favor of telling a ftm transgender person that they have to live in a male housing unit. What I am in favor of is offering transgender prisoners a choice of where they want to live instead of putting them in a punitive housing assignement in solitary confinement. We didn't accept seperate but equal when it came to racial segregation, but we're accepting seperate and quite obviously unequal treatment for transgender prisoners.