Detention Centers Prep For Safer Transgender Housing

Detention Centers Taking Steps Towards Safer Transgender Housing
A prison employee stands guard on September 12, 2013 at the detention center of Agen, southwestern France. AFP PHOTO / MEHDI FEDOUACH (Photo credit should read MEHDI FEDOUACH/AFP/Getty Images)
A prison employee stands guard on September 12, 2013 at the detention center of Agen, southwestern France. AFP PHOTO / MEHDI FEDOUACH (Photo credit should read MEHDI FEDOUACH/AFP/Getty Images)

NEW YORK (WOMENSENEWS)--Sarah Vidal, an attorney at the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project, is representing a 29-year-old transgender woman from Honduras who has been housed since February at the all-male Port Isabel Detention Center in Los Fresnos, Texas.

Her client, like a number of other detainees, is seeking asylum. In her case it's because of her gender identity. If she were to go back to Honduras she worries what would happen to her as a transgender woman. A judge initially denied her case and it is now before the Board of Immigration Appeals.

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