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Title: Transgender woman has asked to be moved from a men’s prison. So far, NC has said
Post by: stephaniec on February 21, 2019, 11:16:33 PM
Transgender woman has asked to be moved from a men's prison. So far, NC has said no.

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article226472855.html?fbclid=IwAR0IzE6NJloczbAiuFLDSYynsUw7mfnWm2hOhHAYgI9HzTZ5Q2sikPgjm2Y

News Observer/By Josh Shaffer

February 20, 2019 01:42 PM,
Updated February 20, 2019 02:03 PM

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Kanautica Zayre-Brown asks N.C. Department of Public Safety to transfer her to a womenÕs prison for the remainder of her sentence because she is a post-operative transgender female who faces harassment and health issues in an all-male prison. Courtesy of Kanautica Zayre-Brown
LILLINGTON
In 2017, Kanautica Zayre-Brown had the last of several surgeries changing from male to female, a final and irreversible step on her long-desired path to becoming a woman."



Title: Re: Transgender woman has asked to be moved from a men’s prison. So far, NC has said
Post by: Gertrude on February 22, 2019, 01:54:09 PM
You'd think they'd learn from the whole slavery and civil rights things and realize that this hurts them in the long run. How unfortunate.


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