Quick question: are you always an ass or just on Jezebel?

Silly me for thinking that Jezebel discussions were for discussing things!

I'm so tired from my day that I have written and deleted several response to your post. They all basically say thanks for a thoughtful response. I can't seem to form a more coherent thought right now.

Listen, right about now I am very much regretting the home made Valentines. We are halfway through with the crayons. They take forever to set up and I also canned spaghetti sauce and pineapple jam today. My feet are tired and I am totally wishing I had gone with the Star Wars Pencil Valentines I saw at the store…

Actually no I had no idea! I've never heard of TERF's. Thanks for the education.
That's crazy, but now I totally see how what I've said could be mistaken for their agenda. Justifying my needs is not a part of my daily life, but I do get how fatiguing that would be. Still, I, probably like a lot of other straight…

That's a great point and would be my argument against housing trans people in with the larger population - because the prison system is so entirely fucked up in the US right now.
I do hear your argument but keep coming back to get how how to keep a trans person safe or the larger population safe from a fake-trans…

Yes obviously I am completely and utterly ignorant of the everything because I want more information about this topic.
Again, good luck arguing this in the real world (meaning not the Gawker family of websites).

You can call me a bigot all you want. That's still isn't helpful to the discussion at hand.

I cannot imagine, being from Mississippi, having to do this back home. Sounds like a stress and worry.

Why doesn't it? If you think that I'm an asshole then what do you think the tea-bagging, Christian-right, GOP assholes are gonna do with this argument. If you can't help a liberal understand the situation more clearly then how are you going to face the rest of the world?

Okay. And where do we go with this information?

That's interesting and sort of how I feel. That's why I am asking for education on the issue - alternative viewpoints, reasons why I am wrong, etc.
I am not some tea-bagging asshole who can't take other account sinto consideration, but apparently this is an issue that can't be discussed without a very distinct Us v.…

So what are people advocating for? Special wings like those that house special populations (those with certain disease, etc). I wonder how viable the solutions are?

You are either looking for a fight or too enmeshed in this issue to have a reasonable discussion. If you can help educate a liberal, open-minded person like me how are you going to do so in today's political climate? Good luck with your fight. You're gonna need it with that attitude.

Thank you for a reasonable and insightful answer. I had not given that solution any thought and now I also wonder why this wasn't the obvious choice.

I said "what's to stop" this from happening. Sorry I poked a nerve, but it still has to be discussed.

I do see your point, but I'm not saying someone would do this to "get a better room".
I'm saying that the I can see a sex offender trying to get into a women's prison by claiming to be trans. Admittedly I have no idea how easy or difficult it is to get paperwork changing your gender.
Like it or not these are things that…

Explain please?

Okay but what are the options? The detention systems, for all of their faults, are still supposed to keep everyone safe. So what should they be doing?

Clearly I need some education here because what the hell else were they supposed to do?
I don't get how solitary isn't the best thing in a situation like this. What's to keep a man (or woman) from claiming to be trans just to get into a female (or male) area. It seems to me that the authorities can't win here. Other…