California prisons begin moving hundreds of transgender women requesting transfer under new law
www.latimes.com/california/story/2021-04-05/california-prisons-consider-gender-identity-housing-requests
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I know we've talked a lot already about prisons, but this just makes me sick. Those poor women :(
From the article:
But more than two hours away, at the Central California Women’s Facility in Chowchilla, there’s fear. Inmates say guards have warned them that “men are coming” and to expect sexual violence.
“That if we think it’s bad now, be prepared for the worst. That it’s going to be off the hook, it’s going to be jumping,” Tomiekia Johnson, 41, said staffers have told her. “They say we’re going to need a facility that’s going to be like a maternity ward. They say we’re going to have an inmate program where inmates become nannies.” 
Any women showing concern are 'transphobic' and need to be ''educated''.
Although advocates and inmates say the transfers have been received well, several claim that misinformation spread by prison staffers is stirring up transphobia and that more must be done to educate inmates.
Transwomen need and deserve to be kept safe too, that should go without saying, but putting one vulnerable group in danger to keep another safe is not the answer. Predators absolutely will exploit this.
I hope a class action lawsuit is on the horizon, but how many women will have to be harmed before it comes to that?