Choose your gender, folks!

Our world is stark-raving mad! The Harris County sheriff has adopted a new policy "designed to protect and guarantee equal treatment of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender inmates," allowing them to be jailed under whatever gender they say they identify with.

My question is this: what if a heterosexual male rapist claims to be transgender just so he can be housed in the female cell blocks? Where is the protection for those female inmates?

What's so unfair and unequal about classifying inmates on the basis of their genitalia? A man can say he's a woman or vice-versa all they want to, but it doesn't change what they are.

"Harris County adopts LGBT inmate policy." The Dallas Morning News; November 16, 2013; p. 2A.