What drives me crazy about this (among many other things) is that it assumes that they need a law to keep women from having abortions after 20 weeks or women will just get late term abortions on a whim. As if any woman WANTS to have an abortion that far along. Having a late term abortion is a very hard, sad choice and…

For calling you out? I don’t need one. Your attitude is smug and callous. You read a long-form article about a decade of terror and rape and violence a non-violent criminal endured in your prison system, and your reaction was to make a remark that was flippant, snarky, simple-minded and indifferent to human suffering…

On an individual level, you can be wrongly imprisoned, put in jail with no charges but held for 72 hours with no one knowing where you are (it happens a LOT), and then find yourself raped. For doing nothing other than being arrested on suspicion or just because a cop didn’t like the way you looked at him.

Yeah, people don’t even realize. It wasn’t that long ago (in NYC of all places) that a trans woman having a condom in her bag was enough to get her arrested for prostitution.

Increasingly, the United States is a country where being poor can land you in prison. Suggesting someone “don’t do things that’ll put you in jail” is only a few notches above promoting abstinence to teenagers.

I have the same fear of ever getting arrested or being imprisoned, for the same reason you mention. And yet, there are too many trans folks suffering from the kind of cruel and unusual punishment every day, that Passion Star has encountered. And it is clearly cruel and unusual punishment for trans women to be housed…

For all the folks posting, “do the crime, do the time,” yes, the “time” itself IS the punishment. They are being punished by loss of freedom, loss of years of time with family, and loss of some of their rights forever. They’ll lose their job and money, and they’ll likely never have a decent job again. It’s unlikely…

What is equally scary is that *knowing all this* there are still people that willingly get themselves imprisoned because the alternative (like having to live on the street during winter) is worse.

And what if you don’t do the thing that sends you to prison, but law enforcement/judicial incompetence convicts you of something you didn’t do?

EVERYONE WHO STARRED THIS COMMENT SUCKS.

The whole situation is horrifying on so many levels. Maybe someday future transgender people will be able to count on the protection they deserve. In the meantime, take care of yourself and stay safe!

Tell that to the innocent folks who spent years or decades on death row.

“sometimes they can be way too salty.”

Do you know how many trans people are homeless (1 in 5) and/or dealing with such emotional complications that drugs (20-30%~ish) help ease that? Both are conditions that could be helped with more empathy than you clearly have. But they are also often what gets people sent to jail/prison.

Better idea, fix prisons. The punishment is incarceration, not rape.

Well that’s the key here. Lower income problems. Lawmakers know that the votes don’t come from lower income people who have to work all the time or take care of others.

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