Breaking: Prisons agency agrees to pay for first gender surgery for trans inmate
Cristina Iglesias will become the first inmate in federal custody to get gender-affirming surgery, her lawyers say.
“I did stuff to stay in prison because I was afraid to come out,” Iglesias, a transgender woman, said.Over nearly three decades, Iglesias said she spent time in more than a dozen prisons, from Florence, Colorado to Fort Worth. In that time the world changed — and so has Iglesias. Now there are trans stars like Janet Mock and Laverne Cox. Caitlyn Jenner is out. And whileAfter years of hormone therapy, Iglesias will become, according to her lawyers with the ACLU of Illinois.
“My whole life I just wanted to be like my sister and have a boyfriend and be a girl,” Iglesias, now 47, toldthis month in a video interview from a halfway house. Her blonde hair tied in a low ponytail, Iglesias’ silver aviators were set off by matching hoop earrings. When Iglesias was set to be released, she issued another threat, this time sending fake anthrax to the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in London. She was indicted for threatening to use a weapon of mass destruction and making threats through the mail. She got 20 years.“I’m not violent at all,” she said, throwing up her hands, nails adorned with a French tip manicure.
“Your heart becomes kind of hard,” she said. “You can’t cry. You can’t go talk to staff because [other inmates will] think you’re a snitch. They’ll kill you.”
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