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page 2 the paper october 28 , 2015 PPoleole ddancingancing ccompeti-ompeti- ttion,ion, ppg.g. 1155 RRightsights fforor ttransgen-ransgen- dderer iinmatesnmates iinn CCA,A, ppg.g. 3 GGlutards,lutards, ppg.g. 9 FF&L,&L, ppg.g. 221-221-22 CChrishris HHadfieldadfield ppg.g. 2233 the paper “Who Are You in Hotline Bling?” c/o Offi ce of Student Leadership Editors-in-Chief and Community Development Ali “Wearing Less” Glembocki Fordham University Zoe “Going Out More” Sakas Bronx, NY 10458 [email protected] News Editors www.fupaper.org Caitlin “One Thing” Hufnagle Siobhan “Passport” Donahue the paper is Fordham’s journal of news, analysis, comment and review. Students from all years and disciplines get together biweekly to produce a printed version of the paper using Opinions Editors Adobe InDesign and publish an online version using Wordpress. Photos are “borrowed” from Elena “Glasses of Champagne” Meuse Internet sites and edited in Photoshop. 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GO TO the paper, we encourage creativity and uniqueness, spark dialogue and discussion, and foster 8tracks.com/paper-tapes TO LISTEN AND FIND OUT MORE~* a community where students are free to fully express themselves. october 28, 2015 the paper page 3 Sex Reassignment Surgery for Transgender Prisoners is the New Black by Zoe Sakas California is the fi rst state to allow this surgery Co-Editor-in-Chief metic which includes breast implants someone who is sure of their sexual not opt to have sex reassignment sur- As a result of two successful lawsuits or drugs used for hair removal or hair identity from the start, but still ensures gery, but instead prefer hormone ther- by inmates in California prisons, Cali- growth. For each transgender inmate, that those who do fi t the criteria will be apy alone or less invasive operations fornia is now the fi rst state to provide there will be a review committee of allowed the operation within two years such as breast surgery which this pol- sex reassignment surgery to prisoners. doctors and psychologists who will de- of observation and review. For some- icy does not guarantee. No one knows A very specifi c set of guidelines was put cide whether to allow surgery based one who is expecting to spend the re- exactly how many individuals this will in place to outline what services would on the prisoner’s physical and mental mainder of their life in prison, this new affect, but regardless, its existence be available for transgender prisoners. health conditions. The request will be policy might bring a great deal of hope provides a feeling of support and un- In the past, hormone treatments were approved if the inmate has more than and is an essential aspect of their pris- derstanding for the transgender com- available, but sex reassignment surgery two years left to serve before parole, oner (and human) rights. munity. had never been provided in any prison As of now, out of the 125,000 in- in the United States. In August, Califor- mates in the California prison system, nia inmate Shiloh Quine, who was for- 400 are being treated with hormone merly known as Rodney Quine, was the therapy because they do not identify fi rst inmate to receive the surgery, fully as the sex indicated by their bodily funded, while still in prison. Shiloh is organs. Hormone therapy costs any- serving a life sentence, and would have where from $500 to $3,000 per year, otherwise not had the chance to live in while sex reassignment surgery and the body that she identifi es with. the care associated with it for one in- Before Shiloh Quine, there was one mate could cost up to $100,000. Re- other successful lawsuit concerning a gardless of how this will fi nancially im- transgender inmate last April. Although SStoptop sstaring,taring, aandnd pact the prison system, it is essential she won the case, she was paroled pprotectrotect mmyy rrights!ights! that these inmates have access to this before the surgery was performed. In operation. There have been a series of both of these cases, the inmates were lawsuits around the country that have represented by a San Francisco based if the inmate has “continuously mani- The new policy was drafted by the pushed the prison system to recognize group known as the Transgender Law fested a desire to live and be accept- California Correctional Health Care that dysphoria, or the condition of not Center. In an interview with The New ed” with that particular sexual identity, Services and the State Department identifying as the sex of your reproduc- York Times, the Center’s executive di- has had a desire for surgery for at least of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the tive organs, is a medical condition that rector commented that, “California has two years, and have received hormone former of which provides and regulates requires these accommodations. In set a model for the country. This is care therapy and thus experienced being physical health care within California some prisons, hormone treatment is that, for too long, people have been that sex for one year. prisons and the latter of which controls not offered to all transgender inmates, denied simply because of who they Although these regulations are rela- prisoner mental health care. Working and not all prisons make any arrange- are. It’s especially important because tively conservative, and still make it together, these two agencies can en- ments for transgender people to live transgender people are incarcerated at diffi cult for an inmate to receive the sure that surgery is in the best interest with the gender they identify with, which six times the rate of the general popu- operation, it is a step in the right direc- of the inmate, and that the inmate is puts them at risk for victimization, hu- lation.” tion and they can only progress further physically and mentally healthy enough miliation, and will likely have a negative With the enactment of this new from here. The reasoning for these cri- to undergo the drastic change in such effect on their mental health. With the policy, the state will cover mastecto- teria is to ensure that the impact of im- a diffi cult environment. employment of this new health policy, mies and any operations to remove prisonment on the mental state of the The implementation of this surgery California has set an example for all and reconstruct reproductive organs. inmates does not affect their decision does not mean that all transgender in- of the prisons around the country that However, the policy does not allow for to receive this medical treatment. The mates will take advantage of it. There do not respect the rights and needs of services that the state considers cos- process is long and tiring, especially for are many transgender people who do their transgender inmates. page 4 the paper october 28, 2015 China Disregards Human Rights, Yet Again..

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