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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

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.

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.

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.”