Posted on 04/14/2022 6:13:10 AM PDT by george76
There are 27 trans inmates currently housed at the facility..
Two inmates at New Jersey’s only women’s prison are pregnant after reportedly having sex with a transgender inmate.
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The prison houses more than 800 inmates, and began housing transgender women last year following a lawsuit brought forth by a trans inmate who lived in men’s prisons for 18 months and the American Civil Liberties Union of New Jersey.
There are 27 inmates who identify as transgender currently housed at the facility, according to NJ.com. New Jersey's policy does not require trans women inmates to undergo gender-reassignment surgery to be held in the facility.
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Two Edna Mahan prisoners filed a lawsuit last year seeking to end New Jersey’s gender identity policy for prisons, claiming they were harassed by trans inmates and that transgender inmates were having sex with female prisoners.
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ACLU legal director Jeanne LoCicero defended the policy of allowing transgender inmates in a women’s prison as one that protects the rights of transgender women.
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The union representing correctional officers at the prison has meanwhile slammed the policy.
"We opposed this policy change believing it would be detrimental to the general population of female inmates being housed at Edna Mahan and also bring added stress to our correctional police officers assigned to this institution," the union's president
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Just what makes it a “women’s” prison? What if a person is one of the other 88 genders?
Sounds like he was a biologist.
What does the prison Biologist have to say about THIS?
No limit to PC stupidity
” . . . get rid of “women’s” prisons and “men’s” prisons and just merge them . . . “
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