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TRANS PRISONERS – SOME FACTS |
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GOING TO PRISON |
INSIDE PRISON |
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In
the US, 5% of adults have been in prison, compared to 16% of trans people and
21% of trans women. Discrimination against trans people make them at risk of. |
Over three-quarters of trans people in men’s prisons identify as women. Trans people are almost always placed in facilities based on their external anatomy or their birth certificates, despite US Dept 2016 guidelines that prohibit prisons from doing so. |
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Economic insecurity: Unemployment is twice
the rate of the general population (4 times for Black trans people) Trans people are 4 times more likely to
have a household income under $10,000 per year than the population as a whole
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In the UK,
Tara Hudson was moved to a women prison following a public
campaign in 2015. |
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Homelessness: 19% have experienced it,
of which 29% have been turned away from a shelter Reliance on survival economies: 11% of trans people have engaged in sex work (44% of Black
trans people, 33% of Latino trans people).. This, combined with police profiling and the targeting of trans people, particularly trans women of colour, results in high rates of criminalisation. |
85% of LGBT prisoners had
been in solitary confinement. Health care like hormone therapy and
surgery are largely denied. In the US, only two
prisons have a physician providing competent care for trans people. In the US, some states prohibit trans prisoners to change their names or to access cosmetics and clothing. One trans woman in a male prison got 30 days in solitary for possessing a bra. |
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