Except in Wisconsin, a few girls have gotten temporary injunctions but the law has not been overturned, it's still on the books, the injunctions aren't for ever, and not all girls have been successful at getting them. Google with the information in my prior post if you don't believe me.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shining Star
There are a few problems with that:Quote:
Originally Posted by KiraHarden_TS
1) A significant chunk of people in our exploding prison population (which, by the way, is a bigger portion of our population then you'll find anywhere else, in any other country- in the world) haven't done anything illegal. Look at how many capital cases have had someone falsely convicted, only to be let free with an "oops, sorry about that" 20 years later. If that can happen with capital cases, you can bet on it being worse for lesser crimes, because the "bar" is lower so to speak. Someone on death row is going to have a better chance at overturning a false conviction then someone doing 10 years on a lesser crime (this is partly why capital punishment is more expensive than life imprisonment, all the legal challenges add up for the taxpayers, fast).
2) It would be fairly easy to show there is a bias in the system on every level when dealing with trans citizens, whether it be with police, courts, or corrections. A tgirl accused of a crime is not going to get the same sense of justice that Joe the white Plumber would be getting. So any problems already noted (see #1) will be even worse, when the accused is trans.
3) The cost of HRT is, in the grand scheme of health care programs (be they the VA, medicare, medicaid, or corrections) negligible. Its not going to break any budget by covering it, because trans people make up such a small percentage of the population, and of those who claim they are trans- not everyone is going to get that diagnosis (on the inside or the outside).
4) Health of inmates is, at least on paper- taken seriously. There are ethical and legal implications when an inmate's health is neglected. A lot of people think its crazy that most states with executions, can't execute those who are ill or having major health problems addressed... this is to discourage situations in which people are beaten, tortured and raped for days, weeks, months or years leading up to an execution (after all, why care if they're just going to be killed anyway? right?). This is the United States, we don't (on paper) do shit like that, and for important reasons. Corrections are ethically and legally required to cater to the health needs of inmates for a nearly infinitely long list of noncritical medical conditions (that is to say; situations where the failure to treat does not result in direct physical death). You don't see prisons being able to go, at least legally; "well, you know what, if I don't give you this then it won't kill you, so shutup and go back to your cell." This scenario doesn't change when the inmate is trans.
5) Prisons cannot just remove HRT access from trans inmates that have been getting them already on the inside because of double jeopardy concerns. Especially in cases where a plea bargain was made, the inmate made that plea with the understanding that they'd continue to get HRT on the inside (depending on the situation the DA might have even made that part of the deal). Revoking that medication would be comparable to retroactively harshening their sentence, if not also cruel and unusual punishment.
I realize our country has a "well, if you do something bad- then deal with it" attitude, but that doesn't mean we can do whatever we want to inmates, and it doesn't mean that all inmates are rightfully accused, rightfully convicted, or rightfully punished for their crimes.