The Argentine president, Javier Milei, announced this Tuesday that he will promote an initiative to prohibit prisoners in the country from requesting a transfer to another prison due to gender identity issues.
“Criminals will not be able to request a change of prison under the umbrella of gender identity,” said the far-right president during a ceremony with security forces at the Casa Rosada.
Milei cited a series of recent cases of prisoners who appealed to the Gender Identity Law to request a transfer from a men’s prison to a women’s prison.
“They tried to argue that, in reality, they were women who should be in a women’s prison, either to take advantage of the women inmates or to continue with the negotiations, under more lax conditions,” said the president, who mentioned the recent case of the head of a group linked to drug trafficking.
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“Only in a country whose values have been deeply disrupted can such atrocity be allowed,” added Milei, who anticipated that “this stupidity will end” and that provincial penitentiary systems that do not adhere to the measure will be “rewarding the creativity of criminals.” and “disrespecting the victims.”
This Tuesday’s announcement comes not only days after the requests for the transfer of the leader of a group linked to drug trafficking became known, but also shortly after the case of a prisoner in a prison in the province of Córdoba who was transferred to a pavilion of women arguing for a gender change, after which he was accused of having abused a cellmate.
Milei expressed his unrestricted support for the security forces, which he said “were left helpless by a State that was tired of neglecting them.”
“The State has to protect the victims and punish the perpetrators, not protect the perpetrators and punish the victims,” he added, and emphasized that “the good ones are those in blue (the Police)” and “the bad ones are the criminals.”
With information from EFE
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