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Tuesday, October 4, 2011

In today's appalling trans male news...

Occupy Wall Street: NYPD Chains Trans Man to Jail Restroom for Eight Hours

From the article:
A transgender man arrested Saturday as part of the Occupy Wall Street protest at the Brooklyn Bridge was verbally and physically humiliated by the New York Police Department (NYPD), including being inappropriately patted-​down, segregated from other arrested persons, refused repeated requests for food — despite the fact that other prisoners were fed — and chained for eight hours to the wall of a restroom in an NYC jail, according to a statement he released.