Ashley Diamond, a 42-year-old black trans woman, is filing her second lawsuit against the Georgia Department of Corrections for being sexually assaulted multiple times after being placed in a male prison.
She was reportedly denied gender-affirming medical treatment and housed in facilities which did not align with her gender identity; she claims to have been harassed and assaulted by inmates and prison staff.
Her lawsuit, filed on behalf of the Centre for Constitutional Rights and the Southern Poverty Law Centre, says she was assaulted 14 times in a 12-month period, despite ‘begging’ to be transferred to a safer facility, after which she was told to ‘be prepared to fight.