While not addressed in the Report, transgender individuals in prison are singled out for a particularly vicious kind of abuse, Sebastian said. People in prison are in the care and custody of the Department of Corrections. Department staff are supposed to handle themselves as professionals. Those who are transgendered and incarcerated do not deserve to be abused and degraded at the hands of Corrections Department employees while taxpayers foot the bill. Yet, there are transgender individuals who have HIV who are not getting services, not getting primary health care, and not accessing medication due to discrimination.
Neglect can be a form of violence against transgender peoples.
And that neglect is killing transgender individuals every day. Except where noted, all text and graphics copyrighted 1998 by Gender Education and Advocacy, all rights reserved.