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Title: Transgender and Behind Bars
Post by: Shana A on March 13, 2012, 06:32:10 PM
Post by: Shana A on March 13, 2012, 06:32:10 PM
Transgender and Behind Bars
Collaborative policy addresses unique needs of "vulnerable population"
Bernie Lubell | March 12, 2012 9:30 am
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/comment/4837 (http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/comment/4837)
No one questions Mimi on the street about her appearance, she says, but there is an exception. And when she walked into an Atlanta emergency room in December with an infected finger, she faced that exception head-on.
Mimi had to show her I.D.
So, in an attempt to conceal her identity, she says she illegally used her Aunt's Medicaid card.
"I didn't want to go in there looking like a girl and give them a guy name," Mimi said, "and have them look at me all funny."
Collaborative policy addresses unique needs of "vulnerable population"
Bernie Lubell | March 12, 2012 9:30 am
http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/comment/4837 (http://chicagotonight.wttw.com/comment/4837)
No one questions Mimi on the street about her appearance, she says, but there is an exception. And when she walked into an Atlanta emergency room in December with an infected finger, she faced that exception head-on.
Mimi had to show her I.D.
So, in an attempt to conceal her identity, she says she illegally used her Aunt's Medicaid card.
"I didn't want to go in there looking like a girl and give them a guy name," Mimi said, "and have them look at me all funny."