It will be at least a month before a federal judge hears arguments for an emergency order that would transfer Ashley Diamond to a Georgia’s women’s prison.
Diamond, who is Black and transgender, first sued the Georgia Department of Corrections six years ago, after nearly a dozen alleged sexual assaults. Attorneys say the state also denied her medical care and necessary hormones.
Diamond was able to release a statement to WABE on her case, and what this could mean for all incarcerated trans people:
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