From The Marshall Project:
In 2022, after years of legal battles, Donna Langan became the first federal prisoner ever to receive gender confirmation surgery. Her listing in the Bureau of Prisons directory says “female.” Yet earlier this week, she was notified that the federal prison system was moving her to a men’s facility.
For Langan, who has been incarcerated since 2016 at FMC-Carswell, a women’s prison in Texas, word of her imminent transfer was terrifying, said her attorney Moira Meltzer-Cohen. “In the case of women being told that they are to be sent to a facility full of men, anybody would be reasonably in fear for their lives,” Meltzer-Cohen said.
According to several sources familiar with the situation, more than a dozen other transgender women in federal prisons received word this week that they, too, would be moved to men’s facilities. Continue reading >>>
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