Even When Trans Women Win Transfers to Women’s Prisons, They Still Aren’t Safe
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…