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SECTION: 506 OFFENDER SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND TRANSGENDER OFFENDERS

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SECTION: 506

TITLE:     OFFENDER SEXUAL ORIENTATION AND TRANSGENDER OFFENDERS

EFFECTIVE DATE:  February 15, 2017

 

POLICY:

 

 It shall be the policy of the facility to search and house offenders in the most appropriate and humane way possible and to treat all offenders with respect and dignity regardless of sexual characteristics, gender identity, or sexual orientation.

 

 DISCUSSION:

 

The facility may take into custody offenders who are designated as LGBTI. Offenders designated as LGBTI present unique situations in processing and housing. This policy shall act as a guide to assist staff in the proper procedures in processing and housing offenders who are from one or more of the above groups. Care shall be taken to treat offenders designated as LGBTI in a way that recognizes the offender's humanity and dignity while providing for a safe environment.

 

DEFINITIONS:

 

  1. Sexual Orientation: The designation applied to a person's romantic, emotional, and/or physical attraction to members of the same or different gender.

 

  1. Heterosexual: The designation applied to persons who are romantically, emotionally, and/or sexually attracted to persons of the opposite gender of their own.

 

  1. Homosexual: The designation applied to persons who are romantically, emotionally, and/or sexually attracted to persons of the same gender as their own.

 

  1. Bi-Sexual: The designation applied to persons who are romantically, emotionally, and/or sexually attracted to more than one gender or sexual category.

 

  1. Asexual: The designation applied to persons who are not romantically, emotionally, and/or sexually attracted to any gender.

 

  1. Gender Identity: A person's internal, deeply felt sense of being male or female, distinct from an individual's sexual orientation.

 

  1. LGBTI: The acronym for a group of sexual minorities including lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex individuals.

 

  1. Lesbian: The designation applied to women typically attracted to other women.

 

  1. Gay: The designation applied to men typically attracted to other men

 

 

 

  1. Transgender:

 

The designation applied to persons whose gender identity differs from their birth gender. Transgender offenders require special processing and housing due to having, or being perceived as having, a self-image or identity, or physical difference not traditionally associated with one's maleness or femaleness. Offenders within the following categories shall be classified as transgender:

 

  1. Cross Dresser: The designation applied to offenders who dress in clothes associated with the opposite gender for the purpose of looking like the opposite gender.

 

  1. Transsexual: The designation applied to offenders whose physical anatomy does not match the offender's gender identity. These individuals seek medical treatment (such as sex reassignment surgery or hormone treatment.)

 

  1. Intersex Condition: The designation applied to a condition which the person is born with external genitalia, internal reproductive organs, chromosome patterns, and/or an endocrine system that does not fit typical definitions of male or female.

 

  1. Gender Non-Confirming: Gender characteristics and/or behaviors that do not conform to those typically associated with a person' biological gender.

 

  1. Sex Reassignment Surgery:

 

A medical procedure by which a person's physical appearance and function of their existing sexual characteristics are altered to resemble that of the opposite gender.

 

The on-duty supervisor shall determine the offender's physical sexual make-up and shall advise staff on the proper searching requirements, if any. The supervisor shall also, determine the appropriate housing for the offende