>V-coding is the common practice in the United States of subjecting incarcerated transgender women to constant sexual assaults in male correctional facilities to placate aggressive male inmates and corrections officers.
>A 2007 study of Californian prisons found that 59% of transgender inmates were sexually assaulted while incarcerated compared to 4% of all surveyed inmates, and 41-50% of the transgender inmates surveyed reported rape, compared to 2-3% of the all inmates surveyed. A 2021 study in the same state found that 69% of transgender women were forced into performing sexual oral practices against their will in all-male prisons, 58.5% reported being sexually assaulted, and 88% reported being forced into some “marriage-like” relationships with their respective male inmates.
The federal government just stopped enforcing all protections for trans people in prison. And despite a law (Prison Rape Elimination Act [PREA]) requiring those protections being unanimously passed in Congress and signed into law in 2003. All because of an executive order declaring trans people don’t exist.
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>V-coding is the common practice in the United States of subjecting incarcerated transgender women to constant sexual assaults in male correctional facilities to placate aggressive male inmates and corrections officers.
>A 2007 study of Californian prisons found that 59% of transgender inmates were sexually assaulted while incarcerated compared to 4% of all surveyed inmates, and 41-50% of the transgender inmates surveyed reported rape, compared to 2-3% of the all inmates surveyed. A 2021 study in the same state found that 69% of transgender women were forced into performing sexual oral practices against their will in all-male prisons, 58.5% reported being sexually assaulted, and 88% reported being forced into some “marriage-like” relationships with their respective male inmates.
The federal government just stopped enforcing all protections for trans people in prison. And despite a law (Prison Rape Elimination Act [PREA]) requiring those protections being unanimously passed in Congress and signed into law in 2003. All because of an executive order declaring trans people don’t exist.