The blatant disregard for women’s protection, health, and safety in prisons is beyond comprehension. Placing the needs of a few men above basic health needs of women is a misguided focus. The harms of trans activism and gender ideology know no bounds: “Rehabilitation—the supposed cornerstone of incarceration—has become impossible. Women cannot focus on healing, remorse, or personal growth while living in a state of perpetual anxiety and trauma.” It is unfathomable that men are placed in women’s prisons and that California eliminated women’s prisons. Another reason the elections went the way it did. Policies of the previous administration have harmed women profoundly in many dimensions, and this is just one more example.
Of course there is DIAG, https://www.di-ag.org, so not all those in the Democratic Party fall into this disrespectful disregard for vulnerable women. There is work to do to increase awareness of bad policies and this article is excellent! Thank you.
Thank you, Amie, for this important submission. I know that Reem Alsalem, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, is sympathetic and has spoken out about it previously.
However, it appears that Alsalem is a lone voice in the wilderness and has had little to no influence on the matter. The United Nations is ideologically captured and views incarcerated women as the least oppressed inmates in women's prisons.
Nevertheless, it's important that the information in this document be disseminated to the U.N. and elsewhere. To whom else might this submission be sent?
And could the United Nations have any influence in these matters if the powers that be were more gender critical than they currently are?
I share your concern and questions. This letter is too important to get buried somewhere. I am interested in any suggestions about how to boost it. I have restacked here, but my reach is tiny.
Violence against women constitutes a large part of its platform, particularly in Muslim countries where female genital mutilation is ongoing and spousal abuse of women is rampant.
This is the platform that should be championing women's rights in prisons, but there is not a whisper of evidence that UNFPA even knows that it's something to fight for.
I can't keep up with all the outrages that trans ideology is perpetrating.
So many people in my circle of friends still don't get it. They're all: "Yeah, trans, cool, whatever, I don't care." They have no idea of the insidiousness of this cult. And it IS a cult.
The harms being done to women because of this bonkers fiction makes my blood boil.
It infuriates me when I heart mainstream media figures, including middle-aged cishet pundit-type guys who are so trans virtuous and so trans credulous, talking about how Trump is "removing protections for trans women in prison." They're not women!
I just hope that the animus that is right beneath the surface of Trump's executive orders does not lead the courts to find that being trans is a constitutionally protected status like race, which would make it much more difficult to curb abuses such placing biological males in prison with women.
This goes far beyond placing the needs of the few (female-identifying male inmates) above the many (female inmates). If I were a sexual predator, I would move to California, openly steal something and get caught, then declare myself a woman. It would be a (sick) dream come true, a literal prison full of potential victims. Open the cell door to one male in the women's prisons, you've opened the door to them all. As Ms Ichikawa indicates, mixed-sex prisons such as California now operates are completely morally indefensible.
Well said Amie 👏👏👏👏👏. Since there aren't as many women in prison as men, there are fewer women's prisons. It follows that these vulnerable women are likely to be incarcerated far from family and friends on whom they rely and trust. Also women tend to serve shorter sentences due to the types of crimes they commit, being much less severe than those committed by men. Known here in the UK as
The blatant disregard for women’s protection, health, and safety in prisons is beyond comprehension. Placing the needs of a few men above basic health needs of women is a misguided focus. The harms of trans activism and gender ideology know no bounds: “Rehabilitation—the supposed cornerstone of incarceration—has become impossible. Women cannot focus on healing, remorse, or personal growth while living in a state of perpetual anxiety and trauma.” It is unfathomable that men are placed in women’s prisons and that California eliminated women’s prisons. Another reason the elections went the way it did. Policies of the previous administration have harmed women profoundly in many dimensions, and this is just one more example.
Of course there is DIAG, https://www.di-ag.org, so not all those in the Democratic Party fall into this disrespectful disregard for vulnerable women. There is work to do to increase awareness of bad policies and this article is excellent! Thank you.
You all are on a roll over here. I can’t keep up. Ichikawa is yet another profile in courage, as are you all. I have restacked.
Thank you, Amie, for this important submission. I know that Reem Alsalem, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on violence against women and girls, is sympathetic and has spoken out about it previously.
However, it appears that Alsalem is a lone voice in the wilderness and has had little to no influence on the matter. The United Nations is ideologically captured and views incarcerated women as the least oppressed inmates in women's prisons.
Nevertheless, it's important that the information in this document be disseminated to the U.N. and elsewhere. To whom else might this submission be sent?
And could the United Nations have any influence in these matters if the powers that be were more gender critical than they currently are?
I share your concern and questions. This letter is too important to get buried somewhere. I am interested in any suggestions about how to boost it. I have restacked here, but my reach is tiny.
UNFPA is the organization that addresses women's issues at the United Nations:
https://www.usaforunfpa.org/aboutus/
Violence against women constitutes a large part of its platform, particularly in Muslim countries where female genital mutilation is ongoing and spousal abuse of women is rampant.
This is the platform that should be championing women's rights in prisons, but there is not a whisper of evidence that UNFPA even knows that it's something to fight for.
I can't keep up with all the outrages that trans ideology is perpetrating.
So many people in my circle of friends still don't get it. They're all: "Yeah, trans, cool, whatever, I don't care." They have no idea of the insidiousness of this cult. And it IS a cult.
The harms being done to women because of this bonkers fiction makes my blood boil.
It infuriates me when I heart mainstream media figures, including middle-aged cishet pundit-type guys who are so trans virtuous and so trans credulous, talking about how Trump is "removing protections for trans women in prison." They're not women!
I just hope that the animus that is right beneath the surface of Trump's executive orders does not lead the courts to find that being trans is a constitutionally protected status like race, which would make it much more difficult to curb abuses such placing biological males in prison with women.
This goes far beyond placing the needs of the few (female-identifying male inmates) above the many (female inmates). If I were a sexual predator, I would move to California, openly steal something and get caught, then declare myself a woman. It would be a (sick) dream come true, a literal prison full of potential victims. Open the cell door to one male in the women's prisons, you've opened the door to them all. As Ms Ichikawa indicates, mixed-sex prisons such as California now operates are completely morally indefensible.
Well said Amie 👏👏👏👏👏. Since there aren't as many women in prison as men, there are fewer women's prisons. It follows that these vulnerable women are likely to be incarcerated far from family and friends on whom they rely and trust. Also women tend to serve shorter sentences due to the types of crimes they commit, being much less severe than those committed by men. Known here in the UK as
" putting food on the table crimes".