Under a new bill proposed by a far-left Brooklyn Democrat, wigs, hair extensions, tucking undergarments, prosthetics, chest binders, and other items are to be provided to transgender inmates in New York City.

Councilwoman Crystal Hudson’s bill, titled „Requiring that people in the custody and staff of the DOC have access to gender-affirming items and medical devices,” would amend local law to require correctional health services to provide transgender inmates with items used by individuals to affirm their self-determined gender identity and live as the gender they wish, writes The Post Millennial news portal.

In other words, prisoners who identify as transgender would have access to wigs, penile or breast prostheses, tucking undergarments, chest binders, and other similar items.

The bill, which will be presented at Thursday’s City Council Meeting, also requires that staff be allowed to possess gender-affirming items or medical devices while working at a facility operated by the at Department of Correction (DOC).

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„Our goal as legislators should be to affirm New Yorkers’ civil liberties,” Hudson told The New York Post. “Providing greater access to gender-affirming care to transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and/or intersex (TGNCNBI) people in our city’s jails is part of achieving this mission.””

The New York Post reports that it is currently unclear who would foot the bill for these items.

Critics of the bill have said that these items would be used by detainees as weapons or be used to conceal weapons.

Benny Boscio, president of the Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, told the portal,

„While COBA fully supports individuals having the freedom to affirm their own gender identity, we cannot support any legislation that compromises the safety and security of our officers and the people in our custody.”

“Allowing inmates access to prosthetics would also enable them to hide drugs and weapons, such as make-shift razor blades, that could easily be used to assault other inmates and our officers,” he added.

Queens Republican Councilwoman Joann Ariola said if passed, the bill „would put correction officers, other staff and inmates in danger because these items could be used as weapons or to hide them, so I hope this bill never sees the light of day”.

Currently 42 of the 6,135 detainees in the city identify as transgender.