Tag: transgender rights
The Only Openly LGBTQ Prisoner-Led Community in Tennessee
I thought I was too old to have to worry about being raped in ...
FL Students Prepare Mass Protest as Schools Hand Over Trans Health Data
On February 23, a student-led walkout will mark the largest protest to date of ...
Surviving Solitary Confinement With the Help of Drugs
Of the 13 years I’ve spent incarcerated, 2020 was the worst. It was the ...
Leading Trans Health Care Guidance Updated—and Still Stuck in the Past
In September, the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) released its updated Standards ...
“Liberty Is Not What I Have”: Ashley Diamond Speaks to the Trans Women Still in Prison
In 2016, Ashley Diamond won a historic lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections ...
No, My Prescribed Opioid Use Was Not a “Relapse”
Society tends to view banned drugs and their use in binary terms. People who ...
Georgia Prisons Are in Crisis—and Punishing Trans Women for It
The Georgia Department of Corrections is in freefall. By the time the US Department ...
Harm Reduction and Liberation for Black Trans Drug Users in Brazil
More transgender people are murdered in Brazil than any other country in the world. ...
As Trans Women Incarcerated in Georgia, Our Medical Needs Are Brutally Ignored
Across the country, transgender people held within the prison-industrial complex face a litany of ...
