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Captive Gendersaround…. Like I said, it’s forced feminization, they’re going to make uswear these panties. They’ve determined what women wear and that’s it.In addition, Cookie points out that if boxers were part of the clothingmatrix it would stop the theft of boxers and eliminate a black market item.It would be easy to allow access to boxer shorts for people in women’sprisons. They are already made at PIA and they could be part of theclothing matrix. Vendor boxes already have approved vendors that supplymen’s prisons with boxer shorts; prisoners in women’s facilities couldorder from the same vendor. And there is the example of the New Yorkstate Office of Children and Family Services that now stocks bras andpanties in boys’ juvenile facilities and men’s underwear in girls’ centersto accommodate transgender youth. A spokeman said, “The policy is allabout tolerance and respect,” 15 and on this point all of the people I interviewedwould certainly agree.When female prisoners are transported from one prison or unit toanother, or if they go into the hospital, they are made to wear a muumuu.This dress can be humiliating for a masculine-identified person to wear.Potatoes said to me,But they bring you over in a muumuu, in a dress, for what purpose?They transport you in a dress. What does that mean? What’s wrongwith a jumpsuit? It’s just wrong to keep us docile, to degrade you, Idon’t know. Even women that wear them, are upset, I’ve never askedthem why they’re upset. The time I wore one I walked to A yard [receiving]to the yard, and I put my bag on the bed and said “what doI have that I can trade,” to the room, “what do I have that I can tradefor a shirt and a pair of pants?” I had just shopped the day before. Ididn’t care what they wanted. I was going to walk out of that roomwith a shirt and a pair of pants, and I did. But, I don’t know what Iwould’ve done. I would’ve taken them off somebody, that’s what Iwould’ve done. If I didn’t have the canteen, I would have took themoff somebody, I hate to say.Standards of femininity are enforced to the extent that if a prisoneris outside of gender expectations, they will be out of “compliance.” Thiscompliance is to the grooming standards—for example, the idea thatwomen will not have facial hair, mustaches, or beards. So, for example,when Kango was going to medical for a lab test she was stopped and told198