Posted on 05/12/2015 5:10:42 PM PDT by Libloather
NEW BOSTON, Tex. — The inmate, dressed in prison whites with a shaved head and incongruously tender eyes behind wire-rimmed glasses, entered the visiting room with her wrists joined as if she were handcuffed. At 31, she had spent her whole adult life behind bars, and it looked like a posture of habit.
She introduced herself: “My given name at birth was Joshua Zollicoffer, but my preferred name is Passion Star.”
A transgender woman whose gender identity has been challenged by Texas authorities, Ms. Star herself is challenging Texas’ refusal to accept new national standards intended to eliminate rape in prison, which disproportionately affects gay and transgender prisoners. Last spring, Gov. Rick Perry declared in a letter to Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. that Texas had its own “safe prisons program” and did not need the “unnecessarily cumbersome and costly” intrusion of another federal mandate.
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Pronouns didn’t always cause confusion.
but my preferred name is Passion Star///
That’s crazy! That was almost my birth name :)
Adopt the Japanese system. Everyone gets their own little room with lots of alone time.
No one deserves to be raped or tortured in prison, but sometimes you have to call it as you see it. When I see ‘Passion Star’, I see a man, plain and simple. This may be a man with ‘gender issues’, but still undeniably A MAN, NOT A WOMAN. Transgenders may need their own area of imprisonment, and the same goes for their public bathroom ‘crusades’, to make all places amenable for them, the 000.1% and not us the 99.99998%.
I want to be known as Passion Star but I don’t want a starring role in passion...
It’s not “rape,” and it should be stopped. There’s no excuse for forcible sodomy anywhere, and the death penalty is the answer.
Going to prison and announcing to the cell block you want to be called ‘Passion Star’? Shouldn’t complain about what happens next.
Rapists should be put into a cell together..
Carma re-visited...
Are the trannies with bi-polar personality disorder raping themselves?
Sexual relations are very complex in this modern age.
Much more so than when we just had men and women.
I agree that the state has a responsibility to insure the protection of people who are in it's custody. I ponder if we could simply prosecute state officials as "accomplices" in any event where someone is assaulted or neglected while in their care.
I certainly have issues with the Prison system as it is currently constituted. It needs reform, and forcible sodomy should not ever be tolerated.
But that being said, I see this new concern of the New York Times as just another propaganda piece intent on normalizing/creating sympathy for, mentally ill individuals who think they can change their gender.
There is no logical answer to this, except to declare wee wee choppers crazy and stop catering to their demands.
Agreed. The propaganda for homosexual activism is also wrong.
Prisons should be safe, no matter how stupid the prisoner is, but this guy is making it hard for the guards.
“Hi, my name is ‘Passion Star’, and I’m a woman,” would sound like an invitation to quite a few gay criminals. He could be a whole lot safer if he kept his inner goddess on the inside, lifted weights to bulk up, and communicated by grunting or passing gas.
My vote: Put him in solitary because he’s too dumb to roam around in the general population.
Prison rape is not alright. Prison sex is not alright. I live in Texas and prison rape is not alright here. If officials are not halting it, they are screwing up.
As for Mr. Star, he’s a man in Texas.
Passion, let me give you some free advice. It’s probably not too smart to call yourself ‘Passion’ in prison.
You didn't have a choice to either be female or male, but you certainly had the choice of prison or not.
Passion Star?? Sounds like a porn star name.
Bear in mind that while most people who are in prison deserve to be there, there have been instances of innocent people who've been sent to jail.
If we accept rape as a form of punishment, then we're no better than a third world dictator like Sadam Husein.
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