transgender prisoners

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez calls for release of Chelsea Manning from solitary confinement ‘torture’

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

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A North Carolina prison forces this woman to shower with dozens of men

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

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This trans activist was there at the start of the modern LGBTQ movement

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

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Many transgender prisoners are trying to survive their time while serving time

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

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Elizabeth Warren reverses course on her infamous anti-transgender remark

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

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They thought she is transgender so they put her in the men’s prison. She isn’t.

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

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A trans woman was arrested for trying to burn a ‘Blue Lives Matter’ flag at Philly Pride

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

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Trump strips transgender prisoners of protections against rape & abuse

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

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Trump expected to rollback transgender inmate protections

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

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Michigan will now provide transition treatment for transgender inmates

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

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