Push to end Prison Rapes loses earlier Momentum

[ToniB]

Push to end Prison Rapes loses earlier Momentum

By DEBORAH SONTAGMAY 12, 2015 for the NY Times.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/13/us/push-to-end-prison-rapes-loses-earlier-momentum.html?smprod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share&_r=1

NEW BOSTON, Tex. — The inmate, dressed in prison whites with a shaved head and incongruously tender eyes behind wire-rimmed glasses, entered the visiting room with her wrists joined as if she were handcuffed. At 31, she had spent her whole adult life behind bars, and it looked like a posture of habit.

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She was disciplined for presenting female, shaving her legs, and wearing feminine underwear, because "no diagnosis was made" of being transgender.

A HUGE reason why our community needs to stop letting doctors diagnose us.

We know what gender we are. We shouldn't need a doctor to tell us.