Think Trans Women Who Win a Transfer to a Women's Prison are Safe? Think Again

Date:  07-18-2024 Survey finds "... trans people behind bars are over five times more likely to be sexually assaulted by staff and over nine times more likely to be assaulted by other incarcerated people"

From Truthout: Ater 17 days, Amber Kim has suspended her one-woman hunger strike protesting her involuntary transfer to a men’s prison. Since her incarceration in 2006, Kim had spent 15 years in men’s jails and prisons. During that time, she fought both for gender-affirming medical care and for a transfer to a women’s prison. Finally, in 2021, she was transferred to the Washington Corrections Center for Women (WCCW). Three years later, this past March, Kim was issued a 504 disciplinary ticket for allegedly engaging in consensual sex with her girlfriend, a cisgender woman. (Sex, even consensual sex, is against prison rules.) Continue reading >>>