“Cruel and unusual punishment.”
In 2013 — two years before Bruce Jenner “came out” as transgender — jail staff assumed a grandmother was transgender because she was taking hormone pills. They put her in a men’s prison, subjecting her to horrific indignity. Last month, a federal appeals court reinstated the grandmother’s lawsuit against the jail doctor and nurse who insisted this inmate be transferred to a men’s prison.
“Every reasonable prison officer and medical personnel would have known that wrongfully misclassifying a biological female as a male inmate and placing that female in the male population of a detention facility was unlawful,” Judge Frank Hull wrote in a unanimous opinion released November 21, the Miami Heraldreported.
