Transgender woman awarded settlement for treatment in jail, misgendering, physical violence and harm, and denial to medical access

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Broome County will adopt new policies affirming the rights of transgender people in the jail after a woman said she was discriminated against while in custody at the jail.

Directly due to this case, it will now adopt the policies of both federal and state law (!why the fuck wasn't it before???!)

Specifically, the county will:

• House people consistent with their gender identity or within the unit consistent with the sex designation the person in custody believes is safest for them.
• Conduct searches consistent with the person in custody’s own view of what gender officer would be safest to perform the search.
• Ensure that staff at the jail respect a person’s gender identity in all other contexts, including name and pronoun use.
• Ensure access to clothing and toiletry items consistent with a person’s gender identity, and facilitate access to gender-affirming items such as binders, wigs, and gaffs.
• Ensure access to medical care free from discrimination on the basis of sex, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation, including access to medical care for treatment of gender dysphoria.

"No one should ever have to go through what I went through at the Broome County Jail and I am so grateful that with this new policy, hopefully, no one else ever will," Holland said in a written statement. "This policy and policies like it can impact a lot of my community and I will continue to fight to ensure that no other trans person in New York or anywhere has to endure what I did."

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