GOP State Representative Cindy Jacobsen (R-Puyallup) has co-authored a bill that proposes if someone’s been convicted of certain sex crimes against women, they cannot be housed in the general population of women.
has co-authored a bill that proposes if someone’s been convicted of certain sex crimes against women, they cannot be housed in the general population of women.
“I just fear that we are so worried about being politically correct that we won’t take a hard logical look at things because this is not a politically correct issue to bring up, and I don’t want anybody to be unsafe,” Jacobsen said on“The bill has gone nowhere … because maybe it is a political hot potato,” Jacobsen explained.“We’ve got some transgender folks who are going into prisons that do not correspond to their biological gender,” Rantz said.
“That’s all the bill says. It doesn’t reference anyone, transgender anything,” Jacobsen explained. “After I co-sponsored the bill, there have been some public records requests from the Tacoma News Tribune, from KIRO, and from some individuals asking for aggregate data on how many people are in the prison system who are identifying as a gender that is different than their biological gender.”Jacobsen said the Department of Corrections would not give the information out.
“If we have transgender individuals, we need to respect and care for them just as much as anybody else.”Jacobsen argued that because of this, the public doesn’t really know if transgender people are being housed in prisons that do not match their biological identity, putting both of them, and possibly, the inmates in prison, at risk.
“We know anecdotally this is happening because I’ve heard directly from the Department of Corrections telling me,” Rantz said. “I don’t know how many times it’s happening. And that is an important part of this conversation. To me, at least I read them not wanting to give this information out as indicating that it’s happening more often than we think.”“We’ll see what happens as we go down the line in the session. I’m a team player,” Jacobsen said.
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