transgender inmates

Joe Biden has repeatedly made time to uplift the LGBTQ community despite the challenges of the previous administration and the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

Cristina Nichole Iglesias could become the first trans person to get gender affirming surgery while in federal custody.

The two “women’s groups” behind the lawsuit have previously partnered with a rabidly anti-LGBTQ hate group.

This would be the first such review of Trump-era policies affecting trans prisoners since the Biden administration began.

She bombed a mosque while Muslims were praying inside, but now she’s begging the court to take pity on her because she was living a “double life.”

Under Biden, ICE policy now calls for releasing pregnant people and families detained together. House members and advocates want that same consideration for trans people and people living with HIV.

Hinton was arrested for “unarmed burglary with intent to steal $20,” a petty crime that has already cost her weeks of freedom and put her at risk of sexual assault.

Kim Wirtz was placed among male inmates in a Baltimore jail. Then, on February 25, guards found her unconscious in her cell. What happened remains a mystery.

Despite years of education, the judges apparently couldn’t figure out how to write an opinion without using he/him pronouns.

The incarcerated trans woman had medical documents asking that she not be housed with cisgender inmates, similar to the prison policy already in place. She was placed with not one, but two convicted rapists.

“She has waited long enough,” the federal judge wrote.

The bills address housing and health care needs for trans people, insurance discrimination based on HIV status, and the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on LGBTQ people.

A psychiatrist said that it was risky to put 27-year-old trans inmate Layleen Xtravaganza Cubilette-Polanco into a cell on her own. Guards did it anyway.

“It was horrifying for the family to see this footage,” said David Shanies, the lawyer representing the inmate’s family. “They were completely unprepared for what they saw. They all broke into hysterical crying.”

The ruling is a rare victory for LGBTQ rights at the Supreme Court.

Because trans rights are currently being debated in the courts, he writes, it’d be legally biased for a court to use a trans person’s personal pronouns.

Often transgender women are placed in solitary confinement “for their own protection,” something which is tantamount to psychological torture.

A transgender woman won her case to get gender affirmation surgery while in prison.

She was raped twice in prison and then put in solitary confinement. She won her case, but won’t be free until this fall.

For Jane Doe, it was not only a fight for her life but her dignity too.