Photo 10: Visiting centre children’s play area (MIDC South) The placement and care of transgender women The Commission recognises that transgender persons, ‘are more likely than the general population to experience assault and self-harm, and that these vulnerabilities are magnified when transgender persons are incarcerated’.140 The UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women has reported that, globally, transgender persons in detention: [F]ace unique and particularly harsh circumstances in prison systems, including issues of classification for their prison placement, the possibility of administrative segregation, barriers to the accessibility of hormone treatment, and higher instances of abuse and discriminatory treatment.141 The UN SPT has also stated that ‘[i]n the case of transgender persons, the likelihood of being sexually assaulted by a fellow inmate was 13 times higher than for cisgender persons’.142 36 Not just an afterthoughtThe experience of women in immigration detention