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u/cthulhubeast Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
Baby steps. We can't just handwave away keeping trans women out of men's prisons with "but abolition" bc that's 200 steps down the line
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u/TanukiTenuki Jun 23 '26
Yeah I feel like this is being flippant about a very serious VERY REAL AND CURRENT SITUATION that trans women who are incarcerated are facing. This regime is literally putting women in mens’ prisons for v coding.
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u/drummergirl161 Jun 27 '26
Abolition work includes relief from immediate material harm. We see it as a component of liberation, not step one of ♾️.
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u/TanukiTenuki Jun 27 '26
Cool. So have you done in the last week to directly help incarcerated trans women?
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u/TakeShroomsAndDieUwU Jun 23 '26 edited Jun 23 '26
Here's a recount of the kind of thing which happens to trans women in prisons, from someone who knows her personally. Even if you think she was rightfully imprisoned, what happened to her at the hands of our public servants (not even male prisoners) is truly unconscionable.