Idaho: Transgender inmates face issues

BOISE — Jessika “Jessie” Stover, a transgender woman, spent nearly 30 years incarcerated in an Idaho men’s prison, quickly learning the repercussions of presenting herself as a woman.

Stover entered an Idaho prison in 1988 for a charge of lewd conduct with a child younger than 16. She was 18 years old at the time and had not yet come out publicly as a transgender person.

While laws and policies around the treatment of transgender inmates have changed over the years, Stover and the American Civil Liberties Union still urge the prisons to change policies regarding where those inmates are housed and what kind of medical treatment is provided/ Ruth Brown , Idaho Press Tribune. More here.