A transwoman has gotten female co-prison inmates pregnant in New Jersy, the United States of America.
She is sais to have regularly had consensual intercourse with her colleagues behind bars.
According to a report by NJ.com, the unidentified jailbirds became pregnant barely a year after New Jersey enacted a policy to allow prisoners to be housed in accordance with their preferred gender identity.
The policy requires state prisons to provide more protections for transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people.
Although, it is unclear if the women were sleeping with the same transwoman, but the correctional officers at the facility have launched an investigation to know how long the two inmates have been involved with their trans inmates.
Speaking about the policy that allows trans-women share same correctional facility with women, the union representing corrections officers who work at the facility said the new policy made things more dangerous.
The union also then issued a statement decrying the policy allowing transgender females to be incarcerated at Edna Mahan.
It read; “We opposed this policy change believing it would be detrimental to the general population of female inmates being housed at Edna Mahan and also bring added stress to our correctional police officers assigned to this institution”
A trans woman is a woman who was assigned male at birth. Trans women have a female gender identity, may experience gender dysphoria, and may transition; this process commonly includes hormone replacement therapy and sometimes sex reassignment surgery,
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