Friday, 9 December 2016

Transgender inmate in Texas faces social media threats

The Facebook post was as straightforward as it was immediate.

"One to the back of the head," composed the client, Francois Jean-Baptiste, whose record self-recognizes as having a place with a Texas Department of Criminal Justice prison guard.

Jean-Baptiste wasn't the only one. No less than three prison guards posted undermining or critical remarks on the interpersonal organization about Vanessa Gibson, an imprisoned trans lady who's engaging a government judge's late rejection of her claim looking for sexual orientation affirmation surgery.

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TDCJ representative Jason Clark would not affirm the Facebook postings originated from state workers.

"This data has been sent to Human Resources for further audit." Clark told The Texas Tribune. "TDCJ does not have a web-based social networking arrangement for representatives, however there are work force mandates that address on-obligation and taking a break direct."

The three Facebook clients were distinguished as Dakota Hoffman, Jean-Baptiste and Susan Johnson-Dias. Every one of the three recorded themselves as TDCJ prison guards in their profiles.

Johnson-Dias, composed underneath the story on the Huntsville gathering's Facebook page that TDCJ ought to "give [Gibson] a state razor and a bandaid" with the goal that Gibson could play out a "do it without anyone's help sex change."

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A supporter for detainee rights, Nell Gaither, president of Trans Pride Initiative, said the TDCJ framework is intensely organized around sex standards. That leaves any individual who disregards them powerless against manhandle. Gaither said.

"We get a ton of reports of prison guards annoying trans people, and a significant number of these incorporate support of self-damage and self-removal of body parts, so this sort of response from prison guards doesn't at all shock me," Gaither said.

The union covering the prison guards, AFSCME, on Monday went on Facebook to reprimand all individuals to "help us keep officer's rights to free discourse in place online by being conscious. At no time should you even support savagery or detest against individuals."

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Furthermore, a look for the general population recorded in the Texas Tribune article demonstrated pointless. The remarks were no longer posted as of Oct. 12, 2016.

A remark posted under the name John Paul Stoddard, who show himself as a previous prison guard, guesses regarding why.

"Individuals have changed names as of now," Stoddard composed.

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