Victimization Of Transgender Patenders - 1671 Words

The United States and England are two of the most modernized countries in the world and share several similarities, one of which being that the justice systems of both countries play their role in the victimization of transgender inmates. Vicky Thompson was a transgender woman, who was sentenced to 12 months in an all male facility in Leeds, England. Within the third month of her sentence, Thompson committed suicide after her lawyer was unable to get the justice system to recognize Thompson as a woman (Kale, 2015). Furthermore, in the United Kingdom, transgender people are required to apply for a gender recognition certificate in order to have their legal gender, which is stated on their birth certificate, changed to the gender which they†¦show more content†¦In the survey, I asked the participants a series of five questions; Is it okay with you if your tax dollars were paying for the sex reassignment surgery of a transgender inmate and if you answered yes, does the fact that the inmate is serving life in prison without parole affect your answer in any way? Should transgender inmates be assigned to prison facilities based on identified gender or their birth anatomy? Should transgender inmates specifically be segregated from the general prison population? Should transgender women that are housed in all male prison facilities, be provided with female-oriented items like nightgowns, scarves, and necklaces? Are you okay with transgender prisoners continuing their hormone replacement therapy under the prison health care system, and if you answered yes, does knowing what crime the inmate committed affect your answer in any way? The results were as follows: In terms of question one, 70% of the participants answered no and 30% answered â€Å"yes†; however, four out of the six participants who answered â€Å"yes†, quickly changed their answer when they were told that the inmate was serving life in prison without the possibility of parole. In terms of question two, 70% of participants believed that inmates should be housed based on their birth anatomy and 30% believed that transgender inmates should be housed based on the gender they identify with. The same participants that choose â€Å"no† as the answer for