V-coding

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V-coding

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Noun

V-coding (uncountable)

1. (LGBTQ) The placement of incarcerated trans women in cells with aggressive cisgender male inmates as a form of reward or pacification for said male inmates.
   • 2024 February 29, Zain Murdock, “How ‘V-Coding’ Demonstrates The Violence Of Rape And Prison Culture”, in PushBlack‎, archived from the original on 8 February 2025:

     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 this kind of sex, usually unprotected, isn’t sex at all. It’s facilitated rape.
     Studies and testimonies over the past decades define V-coding as “a central part of a trans woman’s sentence.” One survivor, Kim Love, described being forced to take a “husband.” Prison authorities frame this as violence prevention.

Verb

V-coding

1. present participle and gerund of V-code