How is housing determined for transgendered prisoners? Specfically MtF prisoners who haven’t yet had genital surgery but have had the hormone treatments, breast implants, other cosmetic surgery, etc. And FtM prisoners who haven’t had genital surgey but have had the hormone treatments, mastectomy, other cosmetic surgery etc. Which jail would they be sent to? Do they still get to take their hormones? How does it work in states that don’t recognize legal change of sex?
I’ve been wondering about this ever since I saw half of an Law&Order Episode with a transgendered-in-progress defendant.
Anybody know?
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In the US:
http://www.transgenderlaw.org/resources/prisoners.htm
As for other countries, I’m struggling to find any cites, but I vagulely remember a news story to do with this not long ago, involving the European Court of Human Rights. I’ll keep Googling…
What Gman posted.
As a rule, that is. Lots of exceptions can occur. It’s an issue the prison systems are struggling with.
In my institution, the pre-op transgendered are generally kept on a special management unit, to minimize the chance of being preyed on.