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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsTransgender Woman Cites Attacks and Abuse in Men’s Prison
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/06/us/ashley-diamond-transgender-inmate-cites-attacks-and-abuse-in-mens-prison.html?_r=0ROME, Ga. Before she fell on hard times and got into trouble with the law, Ashley Diamond had a wardrobe of wigs named after her favorite divas. Darling, hand me Aretha or Mariah or Madonna, she would say to her younger sister when they glammed up to go out on the town.
Ms. Diamond, 36, had lived openly and outspokenly as a transgender woman since adolescence, much of that time defying the norms in this conservative Southern city.
But on the day she arrived at a Georgia prison intake center in 2012, the deliberate defeminizing of Ms. Diamond began. Ordered to strip alongside male inmates, she froze but ultimately removed her long hair and the Hannah Montana pajamas in which she had been taken into custody, she said. She hugged her rounded breasts protectively.
Looking back, she said, it seemed an apt rite of initiation into what became three years of degrading and abusive treatment, starting with the states denial of the hormones she says she had taken for 17 years. But on Friday, Ms. Diamond and, through her, all transgender inmates won the unexpected support of the Justice Department, which intervened on her behalf in the federal lawsuit she filed against Georgia corrections officials in February.
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Transgender Woman Cites Attacks and Abuse in Men’s Prison (Original Post)
steve2470
Apr 2015
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DemocratSinceBirth
(99,710 posts)1. Sad, and the GA authorities are fucking monsters./NT
marym625
(17,997 posts)2. so sad.
K&R
Zorra
(27,670 posts)3. She should be in a woman's prison. End of story. nt
steve2470
(37,457 posts)4. yes, precisely nt
Warpy
(111,292 posts)5. Yes, but if she's pre-op or doesn't want to commit to the full surgery
(which, let's face it, is drastic as hell and has a prolonged recovery period) it's pretty standard to try to make her into a male again. It's cruel and I'm delighted she won her lawsuit.
steve2470
(37,457 posts)6. kick nt