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==Transgender rights==

==Transgender rights==

In [[California]], the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act mandates that males who identify as transgender, nonbinary, or intersex be housed with women.  California is home to the largest women's prison system in the world. A [[femninist]] group, the Women's Liberation Front filed suit claim the California law can be considered cruel and unusual punishment, which is banned by the [[Eighth Amendment]], and is also a violation of their [[14th Amendment]] [[equal protection]] clause. The women in California prisons face “substantially increased risk of sexual harassment, sexual assault, rape, and physical violence,” as well as sexually transmitted diseases ([[STD]]s) and fear of attacks.  The suit said women’s right to privacy is violated by having men around.   

In [[California]], the Transgender Respect, Agency, and Dignity Act mandates that males who identify as transgender, nonbinary, or intersex be housed with women.  California is home to the largest women's prison system in the world. A [[femininist]] group, the Women's Liberation Front filed suit claim the California law can be considered cruel and unusual punishment, which is banned by the [[Eighth Amendment]], and is also a violation of their [[14th Amendment]] [[equal protection]] clause. The women in California prisons face “substantially increased risk of sexual harassment, sexual assault, rape, and physical violence,” as well as sexually transmitted diseases ([[STD]]s) and fear of attacks.  The suit said women’s right to privacy is violated by having men around.   

The lawsuit alleges that the “vast majority of women in prison have histories of sexual and/or domestic violence, committed against them by men.” WLF executive director Mahri Irvine said, according to ''Just the News''.  “Allowing men to be housed with women, such that female inmates are forced to live in close quarters with male inmates, including when engaged in daily activities that necessitate exposing one’s body to other inmates (such as when using a toilet, shower, or changing clothes), constitutes an egregious breach of the social norms that uphold women’s right to bodily privacy from men’s view, scrutiny, commentary, or presence,” the lawsuit said.  “Some incarcerated women sharing a cell with a man, along with other women, now make sleep schedules among the women so that a woman is on watch to try to prevent rape by the male cellmate,” the lawsuit said.

The lawsuit alleges that the “vast majority of women in prison have histories of sexual and/or domestic violence, committed against them by men.” WLF executive director Mahri Irvine said, according to ''Just the News''.  “Allowing men to be housed with women, such that female inmates are forced to live in close quarters with male inmates, including when engaged in daily activities that necessitate exposing one’s body to other inmates (such as when using a toilet, shower, or changing clothes), constitutes an egregious breach of the social norms that uphold women’s right to bodily privacy from men’s view, scrutiny, commentary, or presence,” the lawsuit said.  “Some incarcerated women sharing a cell with a man, along with other women, now make sleep schedules among the women so that a woman is on watch to try to prevent rape by the male cellmate,” the lawsuit said.