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Further, this evidence would help policymakers confront and handle a pivotal question: Does the criminal-justice system care about inner identity? Should it? External appearance matters for cops and prison guards to identify and sort offenders. However, trans advocates insist that correctional staff disregard outward appearance in addressing, housing, and handling trans inmates because it has no bearing on true identity. Adding to this circularity, the “right” for inmates to contravene their natural appearance with in-custody surgeries or commissary items for genital tucking contradicts this notion that appearance doesn’t matter, because they argue that appearance matters above all else.