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The Sylvia Rivera Law Project celebrated a decade of helping low-income trans people with free legal help, survival education and movement-building with a special event honoring three prominent transgender activists.

In May, the DOJ released standards to prevent and respond to prison rape. The transgender community, which faces high rates of sexual abuse behind bars, rejoiced.

A transgender inmate wants to reject an agreement that would make her the first in Wisconsin given state-issued women’s underwear in a male prison and instead continue her lawsuit seeking a taxpayer-funded sex change.

A San Antonio, Texas, police officer has been accused by a transgendered prostitute of picking her up while in uniform, handcuffing her, driving her elsewhere in a police car, and sexually assaulting her.

A prison in Italy dedicated to transgendered inmates is scheduled to open in March.

A convicted murderer serving a life sentence goes before a judge to ask for electrolysis treatments as she seeks a taxpayer-funded sex-change operation.

A convicted killer who is also a transwoman won a human rights case to be transferred to a women’s prison in the U.K.