Do your friends, family, associates find it hard to believe that there are males in women's prisons and jails in 🇺🇸?
Do they have assumptions about what sort of males these might be?
Here's some data. 1/14
There are males in women's prisons and jails in 🇺🇸 largely due to regulations under the Prison Rape Elimination Act, known as PREA Standards. While the Act itself did not contemplate cross-sex housing, the Standards (at 28 CFR 115.42(c)) almost casually reference it: 2/14
PREA Standards (at 28 CFR 115.42(g)) also forbid having dedicated or segregated units for trans-identifying inmates. More aggressive litigation and enforcement has meant that informal such units have been disbanded: 3/14
States adhere to PREA Standards in order to receive fullest federal funding possible. More & more states (CT, MA, CA, ME, etc.) are passing their own laws which go further than the Standards in housing according to "gender identity." CA law details: 4/14
States & municipalities are also issuing new policies w/o going through law-making. (See NYC, Washington State, New Jersey.) Similar to the laws being passed, these policies are entirely self-ID, no requirement of medicalization, etc. Details of NJ: 5/14
Under 15% of trans-identifying males have undergone genital surgery. There are males with fully intact genitalia in women's prisons and jails throughout the United States. 6/14 ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P…
60+% of trans-identifying males say they are sexually attracted to women. (And this from a survey of males not trying to declare an unverifiable non-disprovable identity to opt into women's prison.) 7/14 transequalityorg./sites/default/files/docs/usts/USTS-Full-Report-Dec17.pdf
A long-term study has shown that males who have undergone "sex reassignment" surgery still "retained a male pattern regarding criminality." 8/14 journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…
48% of federal trans-identifying male inmates are imprisoned for a "sex offense." This compares to (next tweet) fewer than 12% of the general population (all men and all women) of federal inmates. FOUR TIMES THE RATE. 9/14
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48% of federal male inmates identifying as "trans" are imprisoned for a "sex offense." (Prior tweet) This compares to fewer than 12% of the general population (all men and all women) of federal inmates. FOUR TIMES THE RATE. 10/14
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38+% of federal trans-identifying male inmates are at a "high" security level compared to 12+% of the general population of federal inmates. (next tweet) 11/14
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38+% of federal trans-identifying male inmates are at a "high" security level (prior tweet) compared to 12+% of the general population of federal inmates. 11/14
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In California 33.8% of the trans-identifying males seeking to transfer to the women's prisons are registered sex offenders. 12/14
86% of women in jail have experienced pre-incarceration sexual violence. This is an already traumatized population. The U.S. is placing genitally intact, female-attracted, violent, sexually-offending criminal males in women's prisons and jails. 13/14vera.org/downloads/publ…
Even were these males not disproportionately sex offenders, even if their crimes were not violent, even if they were castrated, even if they were not attracted to women, males do not belong in women's intimate spaces. It is distressing and harmful to women. 14a/14
In no universe is it a human right for males - however they identify - to shower, sleep and use toilet facilities with and next to vulnerable traumatized women. 14b/14 #KeepPrisonsSingleSex
Update to tweets 9-11 with data current as of August 2023:
Updates to tweets 9-11 with data from Summer 2024.
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