transgender people?

I think it would be criminal to put someone with breasts and a vagina in a man's prison or someone with a penis in a woman's prison. I do know that in many places they put T-girls in with the regular men in jail. That should also be a felony. But that's why it's called a "criminal justice system." What they do is just plain criminal.

As a footnote, I'd like to say that sex can be reassigned surgically, but not gender, regardless of common terminology.

They go to the prison that matches what their gender is on their legal records, like their birth certificate or driver's license. After the operation generally people can get their documentation changed and go to the prison that matches their gender identity. For pre-ops, in most place the documentation can't be changed and they go to a prison matching their genitals. At nice prisons they go to solitary to keep then safe, but at others the officers throw them in with the general population *in hopes that they will get raped repeatedly.*

Oh, and here "in the states" you can use trangender. There's many people here breaking away from the norm and transgender is used as an umbrella term for the entire community. The only people that complain are the people that consider themselves transsexuals and want to throw themselves into another closet of sorts because it's close enough to how they feel. (That and she's from the UK and I'm of Irish heritage so I just have to disagree with her.)

It depends on the State, and how far along the person is with their with their transition. In some state's on hormone thearpy is enough to send them to the prison they are reprensting. I.E. Female to Male would go to mens prison and vice versa. Mostly its up to the state, then its a question of how far along you are. In most states however if your living fulltime as either or you go as whats safest so most states send M to F to womens prison and F to M to womens prison as well either way according to the US standards for prisoners TS should never be kept in gen pop but I am sure they follow that rule once your inside.

let me try to shed a little light on the word "transgender"

Transgender is a community made up of PEOPLE who can be called anything from cross dresser, drag queen/king, transvestite, androgyne, gender queer, gender f^%k, intersexed, and transsexual. While it is possible to have more than one of any of the disorders it is not possible to be all. So one person cannot be transgender since they would then be all those listed above and then some. I am sure I am missing someone here sorry about that. So you can be any of the above but it’s not possible to be all. When addressing a group of people its perfectly acceptable to use the term, as the asker did here. It is however a really poor use of the word for someone to say, “I am transgender.” “So you’re a cross dresser, drag queen/king, transvestite, androgyne, gender queer, gender f^%k, intersexed, and transsexual????” Ok so if you can tell me how in the world the term transgender is approaite to call an individual I am all ears.

Firstly can I ask you not to use the word transgendered, it is very insulting in the UK. I am a transexual and it lumps me together with TV's and other sexual differences. I have no complaints about other people and what they do, in fact help them if they wish, but please use our seperate catorgories. I have had surgery from male to female and as such if I had to go to prison I would go to a womans prison, it is not the same for a pre op, they would still go to a male prison. The same things would apply for a female to male.

RE: the version between Transgender and Transsexual? i've got faith extremely silly asking this question, yet after what i could say is super reading on the subject remember, I nonetheless can't incredibly understand the top distinction between transgender and transsexual.

Here in Las Vegas, a MTF transsexual is awaiting trial for murder, and I am waiting for the results. I'll post them here when the story hits the paper. I'm curious also.

It's which ever gender they are at that moment. If you have a vagina, your a female, and a penis, a male.

I don't know.