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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Rachel Weiner

After living as a woman for 20 years, she was jailed with men

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When Kesha Williams went to jail in Fairfax County, Virginia, in November 2018, she had been living as a woman for two decades. At first, she was put with female inmates and given women’s underwear.

But when she asked about getting the hormone treatments she had been taking for 15 years, jail officials learned she was transgender and had not had genital surgery.

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