For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below:Other protections include single-cell housing while final housing determinations are being made; being able to shower separately from other inmates; the right to have input into housing decision and to appeal those decisions, and a prohibition of physical examinations to determine an inmate's genital status.
Pat-down searches or strip searches by transgender women by male officers will be prohibited.The policy will be maintained for at least one year, according to the settlement."This policy places New Jersey in the vanguard of states committed to protecting transgender, intersex, and nonbinary people in prison housing determinations and continues its path toward eliminating.