Daily Beast Publishes Piece Suggesting Prison Is Pretty Great For Transgender People

[demmiblue]

Source: Media Matters

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Frazier concludes his op-ed by suggesting that, if she plays her cards right, Chelsea Manning might end up becoming the "queen bee" of her prison facility:

One thing is almost a certainty: celibacy probably won't be an option for Chelsea Manning, but she will have choices in regard to how she wants to spend her years behind bars. With that said, we need to keep in mind that one person's prison is another person's palace. Chelsea Manning could become the queen bee. [emphasis added]

You heard right; not having sex with men you don't want to have sex with "probably won't be an option," but at least you'll get to have "choices" about who ends up raping you.

Frazier's column is so detached from the experiences of transgender inmates that it almost seems silly to try and correct him. Transgender inmates face levels of rape and sexual assault over 10 times as high as the rest of the prison population, to say nothing of the harassment and abuse they face from prison staff and the long-term denial of proper medical care. Anybody who's done actual research into the experiences of transgender inmates knows that being a transgender woman in an all-male prison isn't any person's "palace." It's hell.

Read more: http://mediamatters.org/blog/2013/08/22/daily-beast-publishes-piece-suggesting-prison-i/195548

[alsame]

1. OMG. So many offensive

comments in one short paragraph. Disgusting.

[dhill926]

2. this is vile.....

I mean wtf????

[idwiyo]

3. It's absolutely sick. I am really speechless.