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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️
@mady.cat

1. NEW: Legal filings reveal how trans inmates have endured widescale persecution, humiliation, suffering, trauma, and brushes with death for many years in Florida prisons, well beyond what has been previously widely known. www.madycast.com/p/i-cannot-i... #trans #lgbt

madycast.com“I Cannot Imagine Surviving”: Read the Stories of the Trans Women Facing Forced Head Shaving and Medical Detransition in Florida PrisonsLegal documents filed by trans women reveal that trans inmates have endured widescale persecution, humiliation, suffering, trauma, and brushes with death for many years in Florida prisons.

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mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️
@mady.cat

2. I read through hundreds of pages of legal documents filed by trans prisoners in Florida going as far back as 2016. The stories are truly shocking and revolting. And I was writing this piece as wildfire tore through my city and forced me to prepare to evacuate, though thankfully I'm okay.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️
@mady.cat

3. But this is not about me. The documents show that trans prisoners have faced extraordinarily cruel and inhumane punishments in Florida for years, including humiliating and horrific descriptions of forced hair cuts and confiscations of female undergarments.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️
@mady.cat

4. Reiyn Keohane, the lead plaintiff on this case, secured a much better (though still flawed) FDC policy after her previous lawsuit in 2016 was filed. This policy lasted around 6 years and allowed several other trans women to begin their medical and social transition--until September 2024.

mady castigan✨ 🏳️‍⚧️
@mady.cat

5. On September 2024, guards in riot gear rounded up all 80 trans women in her prison and lined them up outside with armed guards watching then from guard towers to announce the policy. Reiyn alleges that one officer said to “make sure they line them up where the ones with guns can see them.”