*Apologies that real life circumstances meant I was unable to answer you question as immediately as you would have liked. Assuming that upon querying your gender identity, you replied ‘agender’ or whatever, then if prisons were to be segregated by gender, you would not be with a trans woman. At no point did I state what prisons would be segregated by - I was instead saying that it would be something alternative to the male/female sex binary as, given is this hypothetical scenario occurs under circumstances where a male/female sex divide is unviable, such a distinction would be impossible.
Instead segregation (assuming it even occurs) would be done by other factors - these could be biological, psychological, legal or anything else. Such a decision would be based on analysis I have not done that takes into account prisoner safety, well-being, cost effectiveness, practicalities of distinction, and many other categories. Your assumption that you would share a cell with a trans woman is in no way guaranteed by any of this - nowhere did I state this. The only thing I can be certain of is that if this scenario occurs under circumstances where the male/female sex divide is impossible, then by nature, segregation cannot be done using the male/female sex divide - biological traits, psychology and everything else would still play a part in the decision.
Next time, I hope you will bear in mind that it is not always possible for users of this site to post a reply on demand for other users*
Thank you for engaging again wombat. There are so many posters on these sites who drop their 'wisdom' then refuse to engage in sensible debate. I'm sure you can forgive me for mistakenly thinking you might be one of them.
I do need you to be way more specific though as this is not really an answer. At the moment we have a 2 prison system which house men and women respectively. Most people think transwomen, by virtue of being males, should not be in the women's prisons.
You are suggesting that we do away with the definitions of men and women but keep sex segregated space. So I need you to say, clearly and simply, how do you propose to segregate spaces?
You suggest by gender but there are over 100 genders (we are told) and these boxes are growing. So do you want as many prisons as boxes or do you want to group some boxes together? if so, which? and why?
If you are relying on the analysis I have not done that takes into account prisoner safety, well-being, cost effectiveness, practicalities of distinction, and many other categories. then tell me more about that? Who do you think should be responsible for such an analysis? Because, you see, I think the analysis should be based on asking women 'do you want transwomen in your spaces?'. That, after all, is how we are going to know what secures women's wellbeing. Thing is, that has already be done and women have said 'no'. Why do you think we need more analysis?
Regardless of the fact that you appear to be suggesting an unworkable categorisation can you answer a very simple question - why do we need people to be segregated according to identity, psychological or legal factors? We have a clear argument for segregation according to biological sex. I think it is only fair to give space for you to share your argument for segregation according to other factors.