01.09 / 14:37
lgbtq
Trans rights
Bill proposed to protect trans women in Californian prisons
Scott Wiener, California state senator, has proposed new legislation that would end the common practise of housing trans women with men in state prisons. State Bill 132 would allow gender non-conforming inmates to identify with the housing that they feel best suits their gender identity.Earlier in August, a trans women named Fancy Lipsey sued the state of California after she was attacked by another inmate for refusing his demands for intercourse and was supposedly told by prison guards to handle the assault ‘like a man’.In February 2020, ABC News reported that out of nearly 5,000 transgender prisoners in the US, only 15 were housed in line with their gender identity.