Alternative sex and gender

The Appeal -  A new report from the Vera Institute of Justice and Black & Pink documents the disproportionate abuse faced by transgender incarcerated people. Of the 280 respondents across 31 states, 90 percent stated they had been placed in solitary confinement. Current housing policies inadequately address the needs of transgender incarcerated people, and reforms are difficult to implement due to the group’s unique needs. While 66 percent of incarcerated trans women say they wish to be housed in women’s facilities, so do 58 percent of trans men. According to Jennifer Pierce, a senior researcher at Vera, addressing the needs of trans people in prison “goes against the way that prisons operate, which is having a single set of rigid rules that are applied unilaterally for everybody.” Washington Post - Kansas’s governor vetoed a ban on gender-affirming care for minors.  The bill, passed last month and vetoed Friday, would ban hormone therapy, puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgery for those under 18. The state’s Republican-led legislature will probably try to override the Democratic governor’s veto. More than a dozen states have restricted transgender care.