Not only that: if they haven't had the surgery yet, then in with the men they go. Our prison system is really adept at messing up people, and it is especially so for trans folk.
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WHAT?!?!?! Let me get this straight: Someone in the midst of transitioning when incarcerated can be denied the medications to complete the process? Did I just read that right? Is that even legal?
if i was this young, this rich and this hot, i would party precisely the way she does. (but no thanks chris brown)
Oh my god. He not only repeatedly raped a 14 year old BUT he repeatedly raped a 14 year old who had already been raped numerous times by her family member. JFC, yeah, I sure she was a totally willing participant! Clearly, she only exists as a hole for the world to fuck whenever it wants. What a whore!
Dude, I'm going to assume you meant well by this. But it's incredibly insulting to show up here and tell us to get involved. If you haven't noticed, Jez readers are all about participation. We call reps all the time. We go to protests. We write, we vote, we speak up. We blast FB and twitter, we get the word out, we…
Only Abigail knows , for sure...
I am the descendant of dry-wallers and fur trappers. Therefore I should be proposed to in a Home Depot in Vermont.
Yeah, my husband is a descendant of both John and John Quincy Adams. So what? It means something to us, but we don't subject the rest of the world to our special little snowflake-ness. *rolling my eyes*
...she was sexually molested multiple times as a child and raped by an uncle who fed her tons of hard drugs. She should've made better choices.
Yes. As a former government attorney, 1000 times yes. The fact that a government agency is using this defense to avoid liability is disgusting.
This is totally unsurprising to me. When I was in the orphanage rape was always your fault. If you fought, you got in trouble for fighting. If you took it, even with a shiv (or in one instance a steak-knife) at your throat you were asking for it. My husband gets angry at me for reading posts like this, because he…
“These girls in the detention center are not Little Miss Muffin,” one official said.
Children cannot consent to sex with adults, and inmates cannot consent to sex with guards. The law is pretty cut-and-dried on this.
What the fuck is a "Little Miss Muffin?"
It doesn't matter if she wanted to have sex with him, he was an adult and she was a 14 year old CHILD. What the fuck is wrong with people?
1. Slight correction - it's not her attorneys that are arguing she's responsible, it's the parish attorneys making that argument. I only point that out because
For fuck's sake. I get that attorneys are obligated to give their clients the best defense they can, but shouldn't public institutions have a responsibility not to propagate this bullshit in their own defense?
It occurs to me that these sorts of trials are rarely actually even about whether or not a rape was committed, they're always about whether or not the justice system will allow it to go unpunished.