De facto punishment of transgender individuals in the penal system.

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21. I must've really blown the OP

I wasn't proposing that if a ftm transgender went to prison she should be forced to live with cis-gender men. I am saying that they should be given a choice, and that being transgender shouldn't be used as a reason to put that person in a punitive housing status in solitary confinement. We've finally become mature enough to recognize that a transgender person should be allowed to choose which bathroom they want to choose. No one is worried about men pretending to be transgender to go see women peeing in the women's bathroom, and no one is worried about transgender men being assaulted in the men's locker room. A lot of rights are put on hold when a person goes to jail, but not all of them, and the right to due process is still valid in a correctional setting, but transgendered people's rights to due process are being violated when they are denied the opportunity to live in general population units and FORCED into solitary confinement, even though they haven't done anything to deserve being placed in solitary confinement.