Transgendered Prisoners
• Gender Outsiders: Transgendered & Others
My beloved is transgendered. For various reasons they've always evoked a special protective feeling in me. This article is one of the saddest things I've read in a long time.
... Inmates are housed on the basis of genitalia, they told her, and in their eyes she was incontestably male. So Thompson took matters into her own hands literally. In two separate incidents, she amputated her own male genitalia, nearly bleeding to death in the process.
I thought she had to be nuts, recalls attorney Bruce Bistline, who handled Thompsons case. But apparently that sort of self-mutilation is not extraordinary in the transgender prison population. The level of desperation is just that high.

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Posted by: urtoy | March 1, 2006 01:23 PM
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