Legal battles: transgender inmates’ rights

Challenging binary gender norms and common conceptions of the differences between sexes, transgender individuals are misunderstood, feared, and often subjected to stigma. As a result, transgender individuals are exposed to harassment, violence, and employment discrimination. The negative outcomes of...

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Autor principal: Redcay, Alex (Autor)
Otros Autores: Luquet, Wade ; Phillips, Lorraine ; Huggin, McKenzie
Tipo de documento: Electrónico Artículo
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2020
En: The prison journal
Año: 2020, Volumen: 100, Número: 5, Páginas: 662-682
Acceso en línea: Volltext (lizenzpflichtig)
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Palabras clave:
Legal rights
Transgender
Inmates
Correctional system
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Sumario:Challenging binary gender norms and common conceptions of the differences between sexes, transgender individuals are misunderstood, feared, and often subjected to stigma. As a result, transgender individuals are exposed to harassment, violence, and employment discrimination. The negative outcomes of this exposure include poverty, unemployment, trauma, homelessness, arrest, and/or incarceration. Within the correctional system, stigmatization is heightened, leading to grave consequences for transgender inmates. The goal of this article is to highlight these outcomes, as illustrated from legal case histories, and to suggest best practice recommendations for correctional system improvements in ensuring the rights of transgender inmates.
ISSN:1552-7522
DOI:10.1177/0032885520956628