Transgender detainees cut off from hormone drugs

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Transgender detainees cut off from hormone drugs

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/43172454/ns/health-health_care/
5/25/11

SANTA ANA — In the depths of depression, battling hot flashes and desperate about her situation, Monica Freas tried to throw herself from the second floor of the Santa Ana Jail before friends restrained her.

After two decades of taking hormone replacement therapy, the 35-year-old no longer had access to the drugs that made her feel comfortable in her own skin. She begged and pleaded with jailers for months to give her the medication that made her "feel normal" but they refused.