Guards will undertake special training in how to treat transgender prisoners when the prison block opens near Empoli, in Tuscany, in March.

Campaigners welcomed the initiative, the first of its kind, because they said transsexual prisoners face discrimination in Italy's mainstream prisons and are rejected by both male and female inmates. They often have to be segregated for their own safety.

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It sounds like another episode of Bad Girls

Exactly how many Transexual Criminals are there in Italy??

enough to warrant a prison.

44 and a bit

what next. Prisons for red heads?

do you not get that transexuals would be at risk in a male prison??

Oh yeah, definitely.

Although, so are gay men. And straight men. And women. And younsters. IT'S A FREAKING PRISON, WHO ISN'T AT RISK???

*sigh*

So you have like a few hundred fuckers locked up, yeah they all technically at risk. But if one of them is wearing a dress guess whos' gonna get it first?

I get that, but being in a Transexual priosn only means the rape/ abuse is from another Transexual. It's not exactly a solution is it?

seriously?


*walks away*

What a waste of money

right, they should just be thrown in with the rest where they risk getting raped and kill, right? god forbid we spend a little extra so people can be safe.

There are separate prisons for men and woman, so if the law does not recognise transgender people where do you put them. You could put them in a prison for the sex they were born with, so you have a woman in a mens prison or a man in a woman's prison. Or you could put them into the prison they have changed to, in a way that is recognition of their gender reassignment under the law.

This is a humane thing to do for now.

italy's hardly the most enlightned country when it comes to rights of sexual minorities. if they felt this was necessary then it must have been really bad for transexuals. end of.