ACLU lawyer Chase Strangio asked transgender prisoners what they wanted. They said they wanted a trans unit. The lawyers ostensibly working on their behalf overrode their stated preferences and sought to place them in women's prisons because a separate unit would be "too stigmatizing."
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Laura Powell
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State Senator Shannon Grove’s SB311 would have created separate units for men who identify as women within women’s prisons, to reduce the risk of sexual assault for both female and trans-identifying male inmates. Of course, Democrats voted against it. Senator Scott Wiener took
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