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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Justin Rohrlich and Alex Woodward

Trans inmate felt like a ‘zoo animal’ after she was forced into men’s prison under Trump order

An incarcerated transgender woman says she was forcibly transferred to a men’s lockup, thrown into solitary confinement, and made to feel like a “zoo animal,” after federal corrections officials carried out Donald Trump’s executive order directing them to house trans women in men’s facilities, according to a newly filed federal lawsuit.

And although Jane Jones is now back in the low-security women’s camp where she had been previously, significant damage has already been done.

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