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A New York Jail Forced a Trans Woman Into a Men’s Facility
ACLU.org ^ | 9/3/2019 | Simon McCormack and Bobby Hogson

Posted on 09/12/2019 12:25:42 PM PDT by simpson96

Jena Faith’s experience in the Steuben County Jail was a living nightmare.

The military veteran spent four weeks in the jail awaiting trial last spring. She was initially housed in the jail’s women’s facility without incident, but things changed when officials suddenly transferred her to the men’s facility, despite the fact that she is a woman.

During the weeks that Jena spent as a woman in a men’s jail, she was routinely targeted with physical and verbal harassment from other incarcerated people and guards. On her first day in the men’s facility, a fellow incarcerated person started touching her body and blowing kisses at her, making her feel scared and uncomfortable. When Jena told him to stop, he said that he wanted to marry her, and he wrote her several letters claiming he was in love with her. Afraid, Jena showed the jail’s guards, but all they did was move her to another section of the men’s general population, where she was promptly targeted by another man.

She knew her new harasser to be violent, but even as he repeatedly hurled threatening transphobic slurs at her in the presence of guards, they did nothing beyond telling him to stop a single time. The guards also started calling her “mister” and “a man,” even though she explained to them that she was a transgender woman. Terrified, Jena spent the rest of her days in the men’s facility feeling sick and scared to leave her cell.

Jail officials also denied Jena her doctor-prescribed hormone therapy, even as they made sure to give her all of her other prescribed medications, which led to hot flashes, cold flashes, nausea, and stomach pain. Since she was released from jail, Jena continues to suffer through sleepless nights and night terrors because of what she went through.

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To: bwest

But .. but ... he is a man. Belongs in the men’s facilities. All else is cuckoo.


21 posted on 09/12/2019 12:36:50 PM PDT by bboop (does not suffer fools gladly)
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To: simpson96

“despite the fact that she is a woman.” Wrong.


22 posted on 09/12/2019 12:37:10 PM PDT by Dr. Zzyzx
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To: simpson96

We should not be coddling lunatic delusions. That dude is not now, nor will ever be a chick.


23 posted on 09/12/2019 12:37:27 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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To: simpson96

Too bad he didm’t get the living shyte kicked out of him.

Seriously, what did he expect? He was in jail, for cripes’ sake, not an Adlerian group session!


24 posted on 09/12/2019 12:38:11 PM PDT by IronJack
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To: simpson96
".. despite the fact delusion that she is a woman.

There... fixed it

25 posted on 09/12/2019 12:38:30 PM PDT by Mr. K
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To: simpson96
The discomfort he felt when the other inmate was hitting on him is the same discomfort everybody else, men and women both, feel when he is around.

26 posted on 09/12/2019 12:38:43 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: simpson96

despite the fact that she is a woman.
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NO, HE’S A MAN PRETENDING TO BE A WOMAN.


27 posted on 09/12/2019 12:39:12 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents_Know Islam, No Peace-No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: simpson96

Mental illnesss, just like this woman who wished she had been born blind. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/why-woman-who-put-drain-cleaner-in-her-eyes-wanted-to-be-blind_n_563af2cce4b0411d306fb1de


28 posted on 09/12/2019 12:39:33 PM PDT by Dr. Zzyzx
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To: simpson96

I’m watching the 1941 movie “Blood and Sand” with Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, and Rita Hayworth. I’m enjoying old movies more and more because people were sane back then and you had normal man/woman relationships (ven if this one appears to be a tale of an evil, conniving woman working to break up a happy marriage).


29 posted on 09/12/2019 12:39:57 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: simpson96

“...Jena continues to suffer through sleepless nights and night terrors because of what she went through...”

Jena continues to suffer through sleepless nights and night terrors because of what it brought upon itself...

There...Fixed it...


30 posted on 09/12/2019 12:40:46 PM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: simpson96

Gut Got, that looks like Peter Boyle in wig.


31 posted on 09/12/2019 12:41:31 PM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
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To: originalbuckeye

Surgery or not the chromosomes don’t lie


32 posted on 09/12/2019 12:41:37 PM PDT by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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To: simpson96

Note to self:
If ever incarcerated, identify as a prison warden and immediately call aclu.


33 posted on 09/12/2019 12:42:29 PM PDT by Do_Tar (Do I really need a /sarc?)
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To: originalbuckeye

Has he had the surgery?

Transgender - no surgery

Transexual - surgery


34 posted on 09/12/2019 12:43:25 PM PDT by Kenny500c
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To: simpson96

Those photos alone are like a complete episode of “scared straight.”

Kids, do you want to be in jail with THIS?


35 posted on 09/12/2019 12:44:45 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: simpson96

Well, since he’s a man, it’s logical for him to be in a men’s prison.


36 posted on 09/12/2019 12:46:29 PM PDT by Jim Noble (There is nothing racist in stating plainly what most people already know)
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To: Yo-Yo

LOL thats what I’m thinking.

Cruel and unusual punishment to all the other men in the facility.


37 posted on 09/12/2019 12:48:24 PM PDT by DannyTN
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To: originalbuckeye
Even if he had surgery, he is still a man.
38 posted on 09/12/2019 12:48:53 PM PDT by CaptainK ('No collusion, no obstruction, he's a leaker')
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To: simpson96

“A New York Jail Forced a ‘Trans Woman’ {MAN} Into a Men’s Facility”

Thanks, needed some good news from that Obamahole part of the country today.


39 posted on 09/12/2019 12:50:16 PM PDT by treetopsandroofs
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To: colorado tanker
...but instead of getting him help the people around him will just enable his destructive behavior.

As will, sadly, major national institutions such as the press, the education system (especially K-12) and today's healthcare system.

The latter will offer solace and hold their hand while the patient "transitions" including M to F surgery and will otherwise counsel them on how to cope with familial and societal rejection.

Not a peep about whether, or how they might achieve normalcy.

40 posted on 09/12/2019 12:50:37 PM PDT by frog in a pot (Arguing the Founders intended the weakest of 2 possible forms of NBC for our leader is a scam.)
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