tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787625573925551983.post4167827961819489842..comments2023-09-21T03:58:08.534-07:00Comments on Sour Grapes - The Fruit Of Ignorance: Mistaken Gender IdentityChristina Engelahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14097267012315870041noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8787625573925551983.post-29300949889062170422010-03-25T13:40:36.602-07:002010-03-25T13:40:36.602-07:00Yeah as horrible as it is. This does happen from t...Yeah as horrible as it is. This does happen from time-to-time in Canada and the US and I'm always thinking the same thing. What happens to these women is horrific and shouldn't happen... But why is it only when this happens to a cis-woman that people are outraged. Trans or intersex women people seem at best indifferent, at worst delighted that this is the USUAL treatment for us... Get that people... for trans and intersex women this is the NORM not the exception. <br />Even in "civilised" countries like Canada and the US we are routinely housed with men and suffer similar abuses while the guards are indifferent or sometimes participate in the abuse. The only alternative? Punitive solitary confinement... Just for being trans/intersex she'll have to sit for 23 hours a day completely alone in a cold, dark concrete box (sounds a bit medieval doesn't it?). If she's considered "suicidal" add to that no furniture and sometimes they'll take her clothes away (they say for "safety" I say just to humiliate her).<br />It ridiculous... In a civilised society we shouldn't stand for this sort of treatment of ANYONE. Rather than calling it a "human rights violation" when it happens to a cis-woman and shrugging it off or even saying she deserves it if she happens to be trans or intersex... We should be reforming the prison system... <br />How can any society consider itself "civilised" when a whole class of people don't have equal rights and is routinely subjected to harsh and cruel punishments that do NOT fit the crime whether they happen to actually be guilty or not. Very unfair we don't get all the benefits of society but get the brunt of the legal system thrown at us when it has a chance. This is stupid.<br />And people wonder why I'm terrified of police :sAlicehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13779422777227510461noreply@blogger.com