Female inmate housed in male prison sues
Filed by: Alex Blaze
January 3, 2011 11:00 AM
http://www.bilerico.com/2011/01/female_inmate_housed_in_male_prison_sues.php#moreA woman in prison in Virginia is finally suing so that she'll be placed in a women's facility. She's been housed with men even though her birth certificate says she's a woman, she lives as a woman, a medical exam said she's a woman...:
Myers says she suffered "invasion of privacy" and "various degrees of sexual harassment" in the dorm, and was repeatedly denied accommodation for related medical issues. At times, Myers--who requires use of a wheelchair--says she was forced to crawl on the ground to access her bed and shower. Once, the suit claims, a male official with "notebook and camera" visited Myers to "look at any tattoos Myers had . . . ordered Myers to disrobe completely . . . then proceeded to take photographs, both close up and full body shots, of her body including her chest and pelvic regions." In 2008, she says she contemplated suicide.
We discuss possible definitions of "man" and "woman" and slippages between those categories, how no one identifier is perfect, but we'll have to add another reason why someone might be identified with a certain sex: pig-headedness. That's the prison's reason, at least:
