An incarcerated trans woman who underwent top and bottom surgeries was forced into a men’s facility, according to the latest lawsuit from trans inmates targeting Trump’s executive order.
An incarcerated trans woman who sued in Massachusetts similarly claimed she was segregated from the general population at a women’s facility, moved into a special housing unit, and told that she would be transferred to a men’s prison.
When Jones (not her real name), a non-violent offender who long ago underwent top and bottom surgery and has been living as a woman for years, was first told she was being moved, her lawsuit says she asked officers if she could bring what remained of her hormone therapy medications, and they said yes.
Lawyers for the Department of Justice reported in court documents that 16 transgender women are currently housed in federal women’s prisons, while the vast majority of the more than 2,200 incarcerated trans people are housed in facilities that do not align with their gender.
One of those plaintiffs, who has had several affirming surgeries and taken hormones for several years, fears that her “breasts and female genitalia will be exposed,” and that she will be “vulnerable to sexual harassment, assault, and rape” if she is forced into a men’s facility.
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