Trans Woman's Suit Alleges Horrific Abuse at Pennsylvania Jail
filed her suit in November in U.S. District Court in Pennsylvania. She was the subject of a lengthy feature published this week in The Patriot-News of Harrisburg.Henderson was held at the Dauphin County Prison for 10 days in October 2020.
She was arrested by police who responded to a report of a disturbance at the Middletown apartment building where she lived with her fiancé.Police said she was belligerent when they arrived, “but she said the encounter only turned ugly when officers saw her driver’s license that listed her as a male,” The Patriot-News reports.
One told her, “Take that [expletive] back to North Carolina,” she said. She had moved to Pennsylvania from North Carolina a few years earlier, and under Pennsylvania law, she wasn’t allowed to get a license identifying her as female.She was arrested and charged with aggravated assault, resisting arrest, and disorderly conduct.
The first two charges were later dropped, and she pleaded guilty a third-degree misdemeanor disorderly conduct charge.When she was taken to the county jail, she asked not to be housed in an all-male area.
