Trans prisoner was pepper-sprayed and says he was invasively searched at Philly’s female jail

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 10/23/2019 | Pranshu Verma

[simpson96]

It started with too many drinks and an argument over who should clean the house.

Zack got angry and landed a punch. His boyfriend grabbed a table leg and hit him in the chest. It ended with the cops at their University City apartment and Zack in handcuffs with one big worry.

As a transgender man, he was frightened about being put in a female jail and what the guards might do to him.

“I didn’t want to be outed,” he later said.

Zack, who is 34, transitioned in his mid-20s to identify as a man. Now in state prison, he agreed to share his story only if called by his first name.

In November 2016, he was locked up in Riverside Correctional Facility, the city’s only female jail, where, he said, he faced a series of dehumanizing abuses.

Records show officers gathered around at breakfast to laugh at Zack’s beard. One refused to refer to him as a man “until you grow a penis like me.” Another denied him shoes in retaliation for sticking to his identity, according to a lawsuit Zack filed in 2017 against the Philadelphia Department of Prisons.

[simpson96]

"One plus one is three....One plus one is three...What is wrong with you people? One plus one is three!!!"

[rockrr]

“I don’t see a problem here” - Mr. Magoo

[robowombat]

Is this individual supposed to be male, female, undetermined or gender fluid?

[EEGator]

I’m confused, is that thing a “man” but has a vagina?

[Fungi]

Too bad. Get your mind and body coherent with what you were born with, then you can go forward. If not, get lost and don't expect anyone to be bludgeoned into conforming to your insanity. We are here: “If there are no absolutes by which to judge society, then society is absolute.” Francis Schaeffer, How Shall We Then Live? (Old Tappan NJ: Fleming H Revell Company, 1976), p. 224.

[treetopsandroofs]

Sorry, the article was way too long for me to keep up with all the necessary pronoun translations to understand what was really going on.

Music is still better. Best regards.

[pnz1]

So Zack is a woman who “transitioned” to be a man and has a boyfriend? Not confusing at all /s

[Ken H]

Dear Penthouse,

I never thought the letters to the editor were real until the following happened to me...

[Lurkinanloomin]

[Pagey]

Great Post!

[lee martell]

It this “Zack”?
The one who says she is now a man?
Dude (still) looks like a Lady.

[AmericanCheeseFood]

So yeah, science right? Biology and all that. ..

Mutilate yourself all you want folks, you’re still XY or XX in the end.

[Salamander]

I can no longer keep up with these stories.

Reading this made me feel like I was hallucinating.

She/he or he/she?
Something in between?

They all need to wear chromosome tags so we understand the context.

[Bullish]

Of course ‘it’ “says” that.

[Salamander]

Y’all need to treat me as a human....but with a long, elegant amphibian tail.

:D

[a fool in paradise]

His boyfriend.

Verbal gymnastics

[ifinnegan]

“Zack” should in fact be thankful they don’t put her in men’s prison.

[TonyM]

“ So Zack is a woman who “transitioned” to be a man and has a boyfriend? Not confusing at all /s”

Not confusing at all. Its like me. I was a heterosexual male but I self identified myself as a female lesbian a few years ago so I could get into the girls bathroom and locker room./s

[Truthoverpower]

I grew up In Philadelphia It’s a ROUGH TOWN the demoncraps learned that last round in spades ♠️ No bull crap with the cops there. They just BUST HEADS and put IDIOTS in paddy wagons I love it. Real cops ! This pussy ( not even literally ) is a loser. The cop crowds there in philly are way mined msnly I’m Sure

[Bshaw]

“Celebrate Perversity”

I had to steal that right there!