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Transfer to Women’s Prison Settles Formerly Male Prisoner’s GID Suit
Loaded on Aug. 11, 2016
by Mark Wilson
Filed under:
Transgender,
Discrimination (Transgender),
Failure to Protect (Transgender).
Location:
Oregon.
On October 31, 2013, Oregon prison officials agreed to transfer a formerly male prisoner to a women’s prison to settle her lawsuit.
Linda Patricia Thompson suffers from Gender Identity Disorder (GID), or transsexualism, which is “a rare psychiatric disorder in which a person feels persistently uncomfortable about his …
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