A petition has been launched to urge authorities in Tasmania, an island state of Australia, to improve conditions for trans prison inmates after a trans woman was sexually assaulted five times in Risdon prison three years ago.
According to local news outlet, SBS, Marjorie Harwood, a trans woman who died of kidney failure at 38, was assaulted by five men during her time as an inmate where she was placed in male facilities.
The petition was launched by her mother, Rosemary Harwood.Rosemary said her daughter did not report the incidents of assault, and later refused treatment for kidney disease in 2018: “Marjorie said ‘I want to die mum’ – because of the rape.