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Friday, April 04, 2008

No One Deserves This Abuse

I found this posted on My Husband's Betty forum...

Transgender women prepare to file lawsuit in response to treatment in D.C. jails
by Yusef Najafi
Published on April 3, 2008

In August 2007, D.C. announced the firing of three corrections officers for wrongfully placing a transgender inmate, who had female genitalia, in a male jail facility -- ignoring her pleas to be moved throughout her two-day stay. Transgender activist Ruby Corado was one of many at the time advocating for a change in booking procedures.

''There's really no guidelines that are in place on how to deal with transgender individuals,'' Corado, a member of the D.C. Trans Coalition, said at the time. ''And the bigger [issue] is people are arrested, booked, and then... housed in the wrong section of the jails [where] they just get victimized over and over again.''

With that in mind, Corado was not surprised to find herself in a male facility after a March 1 arrest for ''simple assault,'' which she says was the end result of an argument with her boyfriend.…

…''The marshal kept saying, 'What do we have under here?' because I have big breasts,'' Corado says, ''and... then he strip searched me in this little room where they put a bunch of guys -- where you're basically at their mercy.''
Corado says she was also asked to urinate in a cup, standing up, again in front of everyone else…

…''These are women with double-D [breasts], fully formed females... and they're made to disrobe in front of men. It's degrading, and it has to stop.''…

…According to Hughes [a local resident who is also a member of D.C. Trans Coalition], the DOC has on more than one occasion violated Chapter 8 Title 4 of D.C. Municipal Regulations, entitled ''Compliance Rules and Regulations Regarding Gender Identity or Expression.''

Under ''Gender-Specific Facilities Where Nudity in the Presence of Others is Customary,'' the regulation proclaims, ''entities covered by the Act shall make reasonable accommodations to allow an individual access to and the use of the facility that is consistent with that individual's gender identity or expression, regardless of whether the individual has provided identification or other documentation of their gender identity or expression.''…

1 comment:

bundle-o-contradictions4/4/08, 5:49 PM
How disgraceful. I think it's probably a way for law enforcement to express their issues on sexuality. Jerks.
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