Sex, Gender, and Dis-Something

There is a word to describe the condition of being uncomfortable with the gender assigned at birth: dysphoria? something like that; and I just realized that trans women—that's former guys who have undergone some sort of gender conversion to become women—and who get sent to prison for some law they have broken, are put in women's prison.  This seems uncomfortable for the natural women in those prisons, who may be required to do things alongside Trans women at certain times of the day. 

I have generally considered that, well, who really cares what happens in jail?  Those inmates deserve what happens to them.  But these days, all sorts of people I consider innocent are often sent to prison, and it could be months or years before they're released. 

Why this issue has come up is because Trump has issued an order saying that trans women sent to prison should be put in a men's prison.  Many people are apparently against this. 

Actually, I can see how many people could be against putting these former guys in women's prison, too.  Getting a gender transition causes so much trouble, that I think—and I'm no legal expert, so my attitude towards this issue could be considered based on prejudice, but nevertheless a strongly held opinion—I think these 'women' should be given 20 lashes, and then sent home.  It's a bit much that they can disrupt the prison system, ɓy first getting gender transition, and then breaking the law.  Their punishment should be twice as severe as it would normally be. 

I really wonder how many of these women exist; trans jailbirds.

This is one of the few 'edicts' from Trumpie that I'm in favor of. 

Well.  Just on Saturday, my wife and I participated in a protest against the Tesla dealership in the town where I was visiting family in Arizona.  Along with many others, we rejoice when Musk loses money in the stock market, the more money the better, because we do, too, and unlike him, being retired, we depend on our stocks for our income.  (He uses his stocks to acquire more companies, such as Twitter.  Which he then mismanages.)

However, though we are happy to apply pressure on the Tesla dealerships, we're not hostile to Tesla owners.  They must have acquired their cars with the most enlightened motives (while the rest of us made do with buying hybrids), and we can't fault them.  There are dealerships in Britain, whose employees have displayed placards reading 'WE HATE HIM TOO!'  The highly excitable Wall Street types might see the protests taking place at the dealerships, and sell their Tesla stocks.  That would be fabulous.  Meanwhile, the Dow is on a downward plunge, not because of anything we do, but because of the Musk-Trump foolishness.  One set of Trumpadvisers want to sabotage government, generally.  Another set of them want the stock market to do well, as an endorsement of Trump's (mythical) financial ability.  Well, they can't have both.  Wall Street wants stability.  The Stable Genius only knows to generate instability. 

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Added Later:

The discussion about trans women boils down to whether there is an objective means of settling what gender a person is.  At the present, Liberals say that we should take that person's declaration about what sex they are as final; if they're trans women, we assume that they want to be regarded as women, and base their imprisonment as women.  But the other women incarcerated with them in women's prison, would regard them as interlopers, having penises (or formerly having had penises), and a possible source of threat.  After all, we're still some way from having unisex prisons, so society regards female prisoners as deserving to be sequestered from men, including trans women. 

The Trump administration, however, regards these people as guys, and so needing to be put in a men's prison.  Taking the inmate's word as to whether he/she wants to be regarded as a guy or a gal is equivalent to asking them: which prison would you prefer to be put in?  Guys or gals?  That seems to be a choice that should be extended to all inmates, and would be considered out of the question.  Worse, there is the possibility that an inmate might change his mind while in the middle of serving his sentence, which would cause no end of inconvenience. 

As it is somewhat clear, I'm ambivalent about trans persons, generally; very ambivalent of trans persons who have been sentenced to prison.  And I'm completely unhappy about children under the age of majority, who express a desire for gender reassignment.  They should not be allowed to take transition-related drugs until they're 21, notwithstanding that sex experts say that after puberty, beginning transition is difficult (for physiological reasons).  I say this because a minor can be too easily influenced by adults.