Transness is treated as both a crime and a punishment in our rigid binary societies. One cannot comprehend the full extent of such a reality, let alone grasp how much worse things can be when you belong to a community that has been historically and systematically marginalized. True punishment is to have your privileges taken away, along with your freedom and your right to exist openly and publicly. It is a form of punishment that extends beyond the confines of the prison into the public life of the everyday world.