Here's a new twist in the ongoing evolution of understanding transgender classifications and their rights in society, as now a woman has apparently been booked in a man's prison cell simply because guards didn't believe she wasn't trans. This follows multiple stories that revolve around transgender individuals being denied from facilities reserved for the opposite sex, yet inexplicably a woman that was visiting from the Dominican Republic wasn't granted her rights to be placed with the only gender that she's ever been.
Fior Pichardo di Veloz traveled to Miami in 2013 to witness the birth of her grandchild, when she was arrested on an outstanding warrant for drug charges she claimed she was unaware of. From there, Pichardo was originally booked as a woman, yet after a transfer to the facility's medical unit, she was later classified as a man.
What's also clear is that this wasn't an innocent mistake, as the nurse was seen writing "Transgender male parts, female tendencies," without conducting any formal exam. The nurse had apparently seen Pichardo take hormone pills, but was also explicitly told by the woman that she wasn't a man.
Nonetheless, she was transferred to an all-male detention center where she was held in a cell with over 40 men for 10 hours, until family members arrived at the original corrections center.
Pichardo is an attorney and an elected official in the Dominican Republic, and she's suing for negligence as well as "cruel and unusual punishment."
Source: Instagram
