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New prison policies designed to protect, respect transgender inmates
By post-gazette.com- Michael A. Fuoco
Published: 05/23/2016

Superintendent Robert Gilmore and other top staff at the state prison in Waynesburg formally known as State Correctional Institution at Greene passed around a bag and blindly pulled out a pin reading either “Team Blue,” “Team Pink” or “Team Both.”

Jezebel Bebbington D’Opulence had asked them to do so as part of an exercise, explaining that regardless of the gender they had been assigned at birth to imagine they identified with the gender the pins represented, even if it differed from their reality.

“Imagine you are still you but your gender is this,” Ms. D’Opulence, a transgender woman, said to those who chose pins signifying a gender that differed from the one they identify with. “Imagine you have absolutely no choice in the matter. That’s pretty much how transgender people feel.”

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