ACLU questions Genesee County sheriff over treatment of transgender jail inmate
Published: Thursday, August 19, 2010, 5:32 PM Updated: Friday, August 20, 2010, 8:20 AM
Ron Fonger | Flint Journal
http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/08/aclu_goes_to_bat_for_transgend.html (http://www.mlive.com/news/flint/index.ssf/2010/08/aclu_goes_to_bat_for_transgend.html)
GENESEE COUNTY -- A transgender Flint woman says she was mistreated during a six-day stay at the county jail and the American Civil Liberties Union is coming to her aid.
Rochelle A. Mead, 38, who lives as a woman but remains a male anatomically, said she was insulted by jail workers, denied medication and not permitted to leave the holding cell where she was kept.
I lived in Flint for a while and it does not surprise me that she was treated this way. Michigan is just a redneck state north of the Mason-Dixon line.