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No Right to Cross Dress
Loaded on Aug. 15, 1993
published in Prison Legal News
August, 1993, page 8
Tonya Star, AKA Anthony Jones, is an Illinois state prisoner. Star filed suit contending prison officials had violated his first amendment and equal protection rights by refusing to allow him to wear women's clothing and makeup. Star did not claim to be a transsexual nor to have a medical need ...
Filed under:
Gay/Lesbian,
Conditions of Confinement,
Clothing,
Prisoner Property,
Discrimination (Transgender).
Location:
Illinois.
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