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  1. Hi everyone.
  2. My name is smith Klinsi and this is my presentation
  3. on transgender people in prison.
  4. So we'll start off with our both of you.
  5. So transgender people in prison are common the house in
  6. prisons for their sex assigned at birth.
  7. This means that transgender men are housed in women's prisons
  8. and transgender women are housed in men's prisons and they
  9. are often not given the correct clothing or hygiene problems.
  10. So why is this problem?
  11. Housing change?
  12. People in prisons?
  13. Other sex assigned at birth is problematic as changes where
  14. people are made targets of assault and immense violence at
  15. the hands of other incarcerated individuals.
  16. This is particularly an issue for transgender women who are
  17. incarcerated at disproportionately high rates and fall victim to immense
  18. sexual assault.
  19. Oftentimes when it is clear that a transgender person is
  20. in danger of continued violence, it will be put into
  21. administrative segregation, which is just solitary confinement.
  22. This comes with its own challenges.
  23. A solitary confinement is known to cause and exacerbate mental
  24. illness. This is often considered a double punishment as these
  25. transgender people are first being punished through the prison system
  26. and then second being punished with solitary confinement, which is
  27. being how they're being held there for their safety.
  28. But it's really a punishment as they have a lot
  29. of reduced rights in confinement.
  30. So moving on to our efforts to fix this problem,
  31. the number one effort again has been to segregate transgender
  32. people into solitary confinement, even though this practice puts their
  33. health at risk.
  34. There's also the 2003 Prison Rape Elimination Act, or Priya,
  35. Which in 2012 out of protections for transgender people As
  36. they were 13 more likely to report being assaulted.
  37. And the original career requirements were not helping Even with
  38. this law, many states have ignored its guidelines as every
  39. state was supposed to be fully pre compliant by 2015.
  40. But by them, only 10 states have reported their compliance
  41. and these are self reports.
  42. There's also the CAS 60 unit in L.
  43. A. County jail which houses only gay men and transgender
  44. women. So more in case 60.
  45. While the case 60 was recommended to house anyone with
  46. mental and physical disabilities, young or smaller sized inmates and
  47. L. G.
  48. B. T.
  49. Q. Plus individuals really anyone who may be at risk.
  50. The jail has decided to only house gay and transgender
  51. people there.
  52. Interestingly, the decision for how For who meets the criteria
  53. of being gay or trans and therefore being housed in
  54. case 60 decided by straight white male guards and is
  55. not only on people's self identifying.
  56. And while this seems like a step in the right
  57. direction to kind of take gay and transgender people away
  58. from where they're being assaulted, um it really uses stereotypes
  59. to determine who is gay or transgender and hasn't reduced
  60. overall assault.
  61. Um, and while it has reduced assault for the gay
  62. and trans people who are housed there, assault numbers within
  63. the general population are still just as high as the
  64. as straight and by men will then become the targets
  65. of assault.
  66. So moving to our changes in California other than the
  67. case, extra unit California has recently made changes which will
  68. benefit incarcerated trans people.
  69. In September 2020, Governor Gavin Newsom signed SB 132 into
  70. law. Sp 1 32 or the transgender respect agency and
  71. dignity. The act went into effect on january 1st 2021.
  72. This act will allow incarcerated transgender people to be housed
  73. in prisons of their gender rather than on their sex
  74. assigned at birth.
  75. So far, there have been 261 requests for transfers.
  76. And as of April 15, I'm sorry.
  77. April 5, 2021 21 requests have been approved and zero
  78. have been denied.
  79. While this is a great stuff, transfers have been really
  80. slow due to the pandemic.
  81. And there has been some increased transphobia.
  82. Guards in women's prisons have been warning the women that,
  83. quote, men are coming and have expressed fear that some
  84. men may be lying about their gender identity in order
  85. to gain access to a woman's prison.
  86. Though, many guards in the men's prisons have claimed that
  87. this is not likely going to happen.
  88. So on to where our research is lacking.
  89. So there is little research on transgender men and the
  90. violence or assault they face in women's presence, ideally.
  91. There will be more research here, but it does beg
  92. the question of whether they are facing assault a similar
  93. rates, transgender women or if this assault is less, there
  94. isn't a lot of research on this yet, but it
  95. could be possible that transgender women are facing more assault
  96. because their house with men.
  97. And also the research could be lacking as transgender women
  98. are incarcerated at higher rates than transgender men.
  99. So now that we have all this research, what can
  100. we do now moving forward ideally, we'll start to see
  101. more states following California's new laws in allowing transgender people
  102. into prisons that match their gender identity is likely that
  103. this will help lower assault rates of transgender people, even
  104. though the overall prison assault numbers do remain very high.
  105. So that is for the short term, we should totally
  106. focus on legislation.
  107. But in the long term, the best way to reduce
  108. assault in prisons is to diminish our use of the
  109. prison system.
  110. Um, we can diminish that use through other means, such
  111. as transformative justice and community accountability tactics, Both transformative justice
  112. and community accountability work within communities to address harm and
  113. focus on healing.
  114. And the ceiling is both for the person who has
  115. been harmed and the person who has caused harm who
  116. otherwise would be sent to prison.
  117. Using these skills can help reduce harm within our communities,
  118. specifically in these transgender communities.
  119. And it allows the person who has caused harm to
  120. take accountability for their actions.
  121. And it keeps people out of prison where we are.
  122. No, that immense harm is caused.
  123. This is an extremely slow process that's going to take
  124. years and years.
  125. So in the meantime, it's still really important to focus
  126. on the state legislation and allowing transgender people into their
  127. correct prison facilities, as well as fixing prison conditions that
  128. may be adversely affecting trans people.
  129. So this is the end of my presentation.
  130. So here are my sources and thank you so much
  131. for listening.