The man is gay and black, so I’m guessing Holder and the DOJ will be stepping in shortly.

Quote: Georgia’s prison officials will have to explain themselves in court if they continue to refuse hormone therapy to transgender inmates, warns a letter delivered to the state’s Department of Corrections on Tuesday by the Southern Poverty Law Center, an advocacy group based in Alabama.

Starting in 2012, department employees violated the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment by denying hormone treatment to Ashley Diamond, a transgender inmate who had received the treatment for nearly two decades before entering the prison system, the letter alleges.

If these allegations are true, the officials also breached the department’s own policy, which calls for Georgia’s prisons to provide hormones to all inmates who start taking them before their incarceration.

In a press release, the Southern Poverty Law Center quoted Diamond (at left) as saying she’s “only asking for respect.”

“No one would deny a diabetic prisoner insulin,” said Diamond. “No one would sentence a person to a gender change. But because I am transgender, I am denied basic medical care and forced to change gender. Nobody should be sentenced to torture like this.”

Diamond, 36, first began taking hormones when she was a 17-year-old living in Rome, Georgia. In 2009, she was convicted of burglary and placed under probation. Two years later, she was sent to prison after allegedly violating the terms of her probation, and that’s when the hormone therapy abruptly stopped.

Her voice deepened, she began to grow facial hair and her body changed shape. In a lawsuit Diamond filed in November 2013 (the suit is still pending), she said she suffered from depression and chronic anxiety. She also contemplated suicide, according to the SPLC.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/13...mg00000067

I believe that the UN Commission on Human Rights should institute a full investigation.

Hmmmmmmm.

A 2011 survey by the National Center for Transgender Equality and the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force highlights the need for such efforts. More than 15 percent of transgender inmates who responded to the survey reported being physically or sexually assaulted by other inmates and by staff.

Transgender people are also disproportionately likely to go to prison in the first place. This is especially true of black transgender people like Diamond: Of the black transgender people who responded to the survey, nearly 50 percent had been incarcerated at some point in their lives.

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I don’t see the big deal… prison makes a man out of everyone.

(05-13-2014 08:02 PM)EagleX Wrote:  Of the black transgender people who responded to the survey, nearly 50 percent had been incarcerated at some point in their lives.

So transgenders are likely to be criminals. Ok.

Begs the question, what's up with transgendered blacks and their criminal tendencies?

(05-13-2014 08:13 PM)smn1256 Wrote:  

(05-13-2014 08:02 PM)EagleX Wrote:  Of the black transgender people who responded to the survey, nearly 50 percent had been incarcerated at some point in their lives.

So transgenders are likely to be criminals. Ok.

. . . and that's with their hormones.

I don't think it's torture but if that thing has been taking them since before it was incarcerated then it should get its hormones.

(05-13-2014 09:16 PM)HeartOfDixie Wrote:  I don't think it's torture but if that thing has been taking them since before it was incarcerated then it should get its hormones.

. . . Because it was obviously well adjusted and law abiding then . . . Before it got arrested . . . . "

haven't read the article or the thread, but how much credence can you really give the claim of 1550 prisoners that they are being tortured by not changing one of the inmates into a woman. Why can't they just pretend like prisoners have done for decades and decades?