Pathways to, conditions and consequences of incarceration for women 2013, para. 63
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- Transgender prisoners, specifically, face unique and particularly harsh circumstances in prison systems, including issues of classification for their prison placement, the possibility of administrative segregation, barriers to the accessibility of hormone treatment, and higher instances of abuse and discriminatory treatment. Generally, transgender people who have had genital surgery are classified and housed according to their reassigned sex, but those who have not are usually classified according to their birth sex for purposes of prison housing, regardless of how long they have lived as a member of the other gender and regardless of how much medical treatment they have undergone. In Guatemala, one transgender woman stated that she was raped more that 80 times in one year. Separation of transgender women may result in greater protection, but this in turn results in exclusion from recreation, educational and occupational opportunities and rights of association.
- Legal status
- Non-negotiated soft law
- Body
- Special Rapporteur on violence against women, its causes and consequences
- Document type
- Special Procedures' report
- Means of adoption
- N.A.
- Topic(s)
- Equality & Inclusion
- Gender
- Person(s) affected
- LGBTQI+
- Women
- Year
- 2013
- Paragraph type
- Other
- Paragraph number
- 63
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