transgender prisoners

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

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.

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

“I’m bringing this lawsuit to bring about change on behalf of a community that deserves the inherent dignity to simply exist.”

Conservatives are calling Warren “batshit” because she doesn’t think trans women and cis men should be housed together.

Correction officers removed Carmen Guerrero’s friendly bunkmate, and bought in one that promised to kill her if roomed with her. He followed through.

After assisting a serial killer and going to prison for lethally poisoning a Grindr hookup, Gerald Matovu now seeks a medical transition.

She is permitted to make phone calls and move about outside her cell between 1 and 3 am according to activists monitoring her conditions.

She bunks with 38 male inmates. North Carolina seems to think this is okay.

“I’m nothing special, I’m just one of the girls.”

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

Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren has reversed her 2012 opinion on a transgender inmate accessing transition-related medical care. 

The nurse told officers “everything fell out” when she was examined – despite no physical examination being performed.

They charged her with attempted arson and threw her into jail with male inmates.

Transgender women will now be automatically housed with men and could be denied medical treatment.

“To send me away to a male prison will surely be the end of me.”

Inmates can receive hormone therapy and gender-affirming surgery while still in prison.

The transgender Army private walked out of Fort Leavenworth a free woman, with a camera recording her every move.

The country already separates lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender prisoners from other inmates.