Even When Trans Women Win Transfers to Women’s Prisons, They Still Aren’t Safe
Many states are rolling back policies allowing trans people to be placed in prisons aligned with their gender identity.
After 17 days, Amber Kim has suspended her one-woman hunger strike protesting her involuntary transfer to a men’s prison. Since her incarceration in 2006, Kim had spent 15 years in men’s jails and prisons. During that time, she fought both for gender-affirming medical care and for a transfer to a women’s prison. Finally, in 2021, she was transferred to the Washington Corrections Center for…