At Its Best, LGBTQ Pride Is an Abolitionist Uprising — and a Dance Party
Faced with transphobia and repression, people imprisoned in Washington State are still finding ways to celebrate Pride.
Faced with transphobia and repression, people imprisoned in Washington State are still finding ways to celebrate Pride.
Even state-level legal protections for trans people have not always extended to those behind bars.
The vitriol of Trump’s anti-trans attacks has stoked anti-trans violence by prison staff and other incarcerated people.
The Justice Department has removed questions about gender identity from the National Crime Victimization Survey, the Survey on Sexual Victimization, and the Survey of Inmates in Local Jails.
In January, the U.S. Supreme Court said Brenda Andrew, who was convicted of killing her husband in 2004, should possibly get a new trial after prosecutors sex-shamed her.
One of Trump’s first executive orders says federal prisons must house trans women in men’s facilities and directs the government to remove anti-rape protections for trans prisoners.