Los Angeles to House Transgendered Inmates Separately at City Jail, Offer Hormone Treatments
In what may be the country’s first such set-up, the Los Angeles Police Department says it expects to have a separate section for transgendered inmates by the end of the month.
The new section, announced by Capt. Dave Lindsay at a Thursday night meeting in Hollywood for transgendered individuals, will be in the women’s module of the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center, according to the Daily Mail and KTLA. It will make appropriate clothing and medical treatment, including hormones, available to those who need them.
Until now, biological men have been housed with other males even when they identify as female, presenting security problems, Lindsay said.
In a memo, members of the LAPD are encouraged to avoid using terms such as “ma’am” and “sir” when speaking to members of the transgendered community and told not to ask about anatomical gender or conduct searches for the sole purpose of determining it, reports the Daily Mail.
