Transgender woman initially denied transfer to female prison in Israel due to ‘masculine appearance’ – media

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A transgender woman who suspended hormone therapy was forced to spent 10 days isolated in a men’s prison in Israel, after officials argued she wasn’t suited to a women’s jail, a report says.

The newspaper Haaretz reported that the inmate, identified in the media only as L., was transferred from Neve Tirtza, Israel’s only women’s prison, to Nitzan, a men’s jail, on March 29.

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