This example wasnt to argue that this is a perfect solution of course. Its to argue that semantics do matter. A lot. Blanchard dismissing this is not only myopic and transphobic but actually dangerous! In some situations, its literally the difference between chilling and being raped to death. Its not binary of course, and the situation is far from perfect. But I took extremes just to illustrate my point.
Its a sliding scale of risk. What if a rapist is weak? what if a femboy is a rapist? What if a woman is rapist? What are risk group criteria? And the more categories and criteria you introduce, the more resource intensive and prone to corruption the incarceration becomes. Any state would try and minimize the expenses, so you either get segregated by sex or height or muscle mass or by being an sex offender. But even the last category can get someone raped because cis women and weak men can be rapists too.
And that is everywhere. Take the toilets question, segregation in groups, gyms and so on. Every time you see those this person who is so called AGP will be discriminated and feel from bad to suicidal
I don’t actually disagree. Prison’s are fucked and there is no good answer besides doing something else entirely, quite frankly. I just feel like an odd thing about this whole prompt is that there’s no world I can envision where, say, a dissociated repper version of myself who still lives as a visibly queer man and never trooned or realized they were dysphoric wouldn’t still get raped to death in a men’s prison and be just as undeserving of it. Dividing prisons purely by endocrine systems could potentially save the version of myself that figured things out, but I see no justice for pre-troon me.
Trans women shouldn’t be in men’s prisons, but more pressingly, if you’re feminine with a penis and got locked up for some crime, the punishment shouldn’t be total rape and annihilation as it is currently, which I see as just as pressing a concern.
This example wasnt to argue that this is a perfect solution of course. Its to argue that semantics do matter. A lot. Blanchard dismissing this is not only myopic and transphobic but actually dangerous! In some situations, its literally the difference between chilling and being raped to death. Its not binary of course, and the situation is far from perfect. But I took extremes just to illustrate my point. Its a sliding scale of risk. What if a rapist is weak? what if a femboy is a rapist? What if a woman is rapist? What are risk group criteria? And the more categories and criteria you introduce, the more resource intensive and prone to corruption the incarceration becomes. Any state would try and minimize the expenses, so you either get segregated by sex or height or muscle mass or by being an sex offender. But even the last category can get someone raped because cis women and weak men can be rapists too. And that is everywhere. Take the toilets question, segregation in groups, gyms and so on. Every time you see those this person who is so called AGP will be discriminated and feel from bad to suicidal
Very good point
I don’t actually disagree. Prison’s are fucked and there is no good answer besides doing something else entirely, quite frankly. I just feel like an odd thing about this whole prompt is that there’s no world I can envision where, say, a dissociated repper version of myself who still lives as a visibly queer man and never trooned or realized they were dysphoric wouldn’t still get raped to death in a men’s prison and be just as undeserving of it. Dividing prisons purely by endocrine systems could potentially save the version of myself that figured things out, but I see no justice for pre-troon me.
Trans women shouldn’t be in men’s prisons, but more pressingly, if you’re feminine with a penis and got locked up for some crime, the punishment shouldn’t be total rape and annihilation as it is currently, which I see as just as pressing a concern.