# Which Prison Do Transgendered People Go To? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 30, 2012, 8:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-prison-do-transgendered-people-go-to/611171 "2012-01-30T08:07:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![JpnDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@JpnDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JpnDude)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 2:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-prison-do-transgendered-people-go-to/611171/21 "2012-01-31T02:59:43Z")
I’ve had a few very beautiful, feminine transgendered (M-to-F) friends locked up and deported for violating immigration laws here in Japan. They were in various stages in their physical change but were still registered as “male”. They were put in the male detention facilities before being flown out. ---
**Author:** ![Mdcastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/958977/32.png) [@Mdcastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mdcastle)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 4:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-prison-do-transgendered-people-go-to/611171/22 "2012-01-31T04:37:45Z")
A side note, years ago someone was being arrested on COPS. The officer kept asking the person if they were male or female, and kept getting ambigous responses like “some days I feel like a man and some days I feel like a woman”. Finally the cop just asked “do you have a penis?” ---
**Author:** ![ruadh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/d2c977/32.png) [@ruadh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ruadh)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 8:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-prison-do-transgendered-people-go-to/611171/23 "2012-01-31T08:27:51Z")
> [@Inigo\_Montoya](#): > > This one is so poetic it kind of writes itself but…you put him in a male prison, right? If you were paying attention, you might have noticed there was a specific point in the OP’s post that I was replying to when I asked that question. ---
**Author:** ![psychonaut](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/psychonaut/32/4655_2.png) [@psychonaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/psychonaut)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2012, 9:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-prison-do-transgendered-people-go-to/611171/24 "2012-01-31T09:06:57Z")
> [@Aji\_de\_Gallina](#): > > Let’s say I’m from jurisdiction A that doesn’t recognise it and I commit the crime in jurisdiction B that does. I doubt this scenario happens often enough for most jurisdictions to have enacted any laws for dealing with it. Presumably the state will assign the detainee by default to the prison appropriate for the gender specified on their ID, and if the new jurisdiction allows them to change the gender listed on their ID, they had better apply to do so _tout de suite_. In the meantime, who knows what may happen? Perhaps their legal representative could successfully petition the court and/or prison administrator for relocation to another prison pending their new ID, or perhaps they will have to sit it out in their original prison (perhaps in protective custody) until their paperwork is processed. Again, I doubt anyone has bothered to make any rules about this, so it’s probably going to be decided on a case-by-case basis. ---
**Author:** ![hOLLYLANGSFORD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/8797f3/32.png) [@hOLLYLANGSFORD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hOLLYLANGSFORD)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-prison-do-transgendered-people-go-to/611171/25 "2014-05-14T21:51:37Z")
Hi I remember a time when just being a Transsexual could land you in prison. I’m not totally a TG, I’m a SIDESHOW FREEK. ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [May 14, 2014, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-prison-do-transgendered-people-go-to/611171/26 "2014-05-14T22:07:26Z")
**hOLLYLANGSFORD** , the General Questions forum is for factual information. Old threads should be revived only to add new information. Since this thread is old, I’m going to close it. If you wish to discuss your sexuality, please open a new thread in our IMHO or MPSIMS forums. Colibri General Questions Moderator [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/which-prison-do-transgendered-people-go-to/611171.md?page=1)