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Pretty interesting how being anti-prison rape is considered an ideological argument. But hats off to the real winners of this situation: the bisexual rapists who get to rape no matter what ideology their captors have, I guess.



This might seem clever, but it ignores human biology and sociology.


Sociology of the society as a whole perhaps, but the first three letters of LGBT are not magically immune and the fourth letter is not magically capable.

And physiologically, someone whose outie was surgically modified into an innie is going to have just as many difficulties topping as a natural born woman.


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I remember hearing about some boy who was sent to a prison for a minor offence, was raped, got HIV.

Regardless of your intent, which I cannot know because I am not a mind-reader, what you write here therefore still comes across as if it was ~"it's only bad when pre-op trans women do it".


Please refrain from deliberately misreading my comments.

Sexual assault and rape is terrible, no matter who the perpetrator or victim is. On this, I assume we agree.

The issue here is policy changes that remove one of the most important safeguarding measures to prevent this in the prison system: segregation by sex, so that all male inmates have no physical access to any female inmates.


> On this, I assume we agree.

I am glad. There is no intent to misread, hence my caveat between the commas and the tilde: this is merely how I did perceive it.

> one of the most important safeguarding measures to prevent this in the prison system

I assert, and I thought demonstrated, that this does not in fact seem to be an effective safeguard.


It is an effective safeguard for protecting female prisoners from male prisoners.

There are different safeguards within each prison to protect prisoners from others of the same sex. VPUs for example.




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