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Prison abolition is a longer term project and requires extra-electoral movement.
In the meantime, there needs to be pressure against the transmisogynistic violence inherent in the prison system. Cis women do not need protection from trans women.
In the meantime, there needs to be pressure against the transmisogynistic violence inherent in the prison system. Cis women do not need protection from trans women.
But it’s more than just that. Layleen Polanco is dead. Trans women are police as sex workers or “sex worker lookalikes” and funneled into prisons. Black trans women are the primary targets.
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Prisons are ritualized rape centers for trans women who have roughly a 100% rate of being raped while inside men’s prisons and still very high in women’s prisons. Trans women are vulnerable to the injustice of the criminal system.
Prisons are ritualized rape centers for trans women who have roughly a 100% rate of being raped while inside men’s prisons and still very high in women’s prisons. Trans women are vulnerable to the injustice of the criminal system.
And Black trans women are demographically conditioned into a stream of exploitation that begins with community labor, goes to unprotected street work, and ends in murder or violent imprisonment. It MUST end. It is institutionalized murder and rape.
