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Under Donald Trump’s administration, trans inmates had access to the same medical care that his campaign is attacking Kamala Harris for supporting.
The transgender woman was in protective custody at the time of the attack.
A federal judge ruled that the state must provide a transgender inmate with gender-reassignment surgery, a decision both Massachusetts Senate candidates oppose.
Provisions in one of the first orders signed by Trump mandate that transgender women be housed in men's prisons by stripping protections for trans prisoners in the Prison Rape Elimination Act.
The settlement guarantees appropriate housing and treatment for all trans inmates in the state.
Jenna Mitchell's family says prison staff did nothing to prevent her suicide.
The new policy is part of a package of pro-LGBTQ+ bills signed into law by Gov. Gavin Newsom.
The order will mean the inmate, identified under the pseudonym Maria Moe, will be transferred to a men's prison, putting her in immediate danger, the lawsuit says.
Harris said that while she had to serve the California Dept. of Corrections, she worked behind the scenes to change the anti-trans policy.
The state's Attorney General Derek Brown credits President Donald Trump for the decision and a new attitude from the federal prosecutors.
The trans guard supervised a strip search of Rufus West, an inmate at the Green Bay Correctional Institution in Allouez, Wis., in 2016.
The DOJ filed a statement of interest in Ashley Diamond's case against the Georgia prison system, which she says failed to protect her from sexual assault and denied her health care.
The Department of Corrections continues to list her gender as male and to deadname the inmate.
A new Tampa Bay Times investigation suggests there are miserable and dangerous conditions in state prisons.
Massachusetts -- viewed as a bastion of tolerance -- only recently began recognizing the humanity of trans prisoners.
She said she was subjected to a body-cavity search by a male officer, among other humiliations.
