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• • 03 Nov 07
  • 1:41 pm

  I must agree with wolf. This is rather simple in my eyes. If s/he has male parts s/he is a male. therefore belongs in a male prison. If s/he has female part s/he is a female, and belongs in a female prison. It is their right to receive the operations necessary to become of the opposite sex. Just as much their right to do so as it is everyone else's right to have those who break the law placed into prisons and deal with the punishments of their law breaking. This person's life outside of prison must of had some frowning …

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• • 03 Nov 07
  • 3:21 pm

  I must respect your evaluation of our evaluations due to two reasons. 1. You seem very well in tune with the ideas of gender clarity. 2. 2. I see what you mean with our interpretations of this article. I may have lost sight a bit of how in mentality Giraldo is a woman. Whether or not his/her body shows this. In prison though maybe the term we are using is transsexual instead of transgendered. Since in prison and in this article it’d be more around the idea of sex and less of gender. This article seems more to discuss his sexual …

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• • 03 Nov 07
  • 5:20 pm

  Yes most of the problems for the FtM and MtFs are that they need to socially accepted, but discussing their treatment as a sexual prey in prison is much more of a problem than just the cultural shock they bring, though their solution may bring about many more changes in prison. I feel their hormones should be available in most cases, and they should deserve some sorts of treatment towards their transgendered lifestyle, and their incessant struggle for a life they deserve. You can’t just alter/end their hormone intake if they have already begun to undergo their changes. And, yes homosexuals …

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