“An honest mistake.”
No. It wasn’t an honest mistake. People are put in jail populations based on their actual gender, as determined by their genitals. She was examined, her female parts were examined. There is no excuse.
I work in a prison. I can tell you that this stupid move not only jeopardizes the safety of the inmate, it jeopardizes the safety and security of the jail staff as well.
The people involved should be out of jobs, blacklisted, and sued right down to their skivvies.
The legal claim that the federal appellate court endorsed was that the doctor and nurse had been deliberately indifferent to their clearly established duty to assign the plaintiff to gender-appropriate inmate facilities. Their rather thin explanation was that there was a medical note in the file to the effect that the plaintiff was taking hormone therapy, which led them to assume that it was pursuant to gender reassignment. The obvious possibility of it being post-menopausal hormone therapy was supposedly ignored, as was the chance to examine and question the plaintiff in order to resolve the issue.
I agree. Gross negligence at the very least.
Simply no excuse.
Thank you for your reply.
I think that the poster was using sacraism