We have many transgendered people on this compound here at Carswell, TX. Today I witnessed them take the males who were both in the process of being made female and the ones who completed the process to become female because they were males according to birth certificates. Although I do not understand the why’s of the situations what I do know is that the taking of those individuals will put some of them at greater risk by placing them back in a male facility. There is no guarantee of protection for these individuals. I don’t know what will happen to those individuals, but I am sure they will be abused somehow by both inmates and most likely the people who were put in charge of their protection while in prison. A great injustice happened today, and I am at a loss of what can be done to help these individuals.
If this is happening inside the BOP what about in schools and/or with same-sex marriages? Maybe I am too open-minded….but I say it’s compassionate to care what your fellow human-beings think and that we should stand by their choices. If any of my children/grandchildren came to me and said they thought maybe there were of a different sex and trapped in their body I would stand beside them and love them for who they choose to be. To do anything different is to say that I don’t love them. That I don’t care about them. That they didn’t matter. They do matter. So do the individuals who were taken today.