V-coding

The placement of incarcerated trans women in cells with aggressive cisgender male inmates (who will physically or sexually assault the trans women) as a form of reward or pacification for the male inmates and abuse of the trans women.

Noun

  1. The placement of incarcerated trans women in cells with aggressive cisgender male inmates (who will physically or sexually assault the trans women) as a form of reward or pacification for the male inmates and abuse of the trans women.
    • In a grotesque manipulation of power dynamics, sexual and carceral violence combine to produce V-coding: Prison staff “pacify” incarcerated men by putting a trans woman in a cell with them to “offer” sexual favors. But...

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of V-code